From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 6 23:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2336A37B401; Mon, 6 May 2002 23:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g476CqA82104; Tue, 7 May 2002 08:12:52 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200205070612.g476CqA82104@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: ok then stupid question about IBSS mode In-Reply-To: <20020507123954.B63106@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" at "May 7, 2002 12:39:54 pm" To: grog@FreeBSD.ORG (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:12:52 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > This is the result of the misleading terminology. On Lucent cards, > you need the following for an IBSS: > > wicontrol -p 1 > wicontrol -n "IBSS" > > In addition, *at least one* station (card) must do > > wicontrol -c 1 > > With the Lucent firmware, this creates a BSSID with the MAC address of > that station, with bit 6 of the first octet set. For example: > > Current BSSID: [ 02:02:2d:28:de:bf ] > MAC address: [ 00:02:2d:28:de:bf ] > > This is the only contribution of this station. Once it has done this, > it can go away and the other stations can still communicate between > each other. Your test is too static. What happens if your master went away and a new slave pitch up? Or if one of the slaves went away for a while and then come back? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message