Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:12:52 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: grog@FreeBSD.ORG (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ok then stupid question about IBSS mode Message-ID: <200205070612.g476CqA82104@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020507123954.B63106@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" at "May 7, 2002 12:39:54 pm"
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> > 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
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