From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 6 20:10: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F1F37B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 20:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 068338163C; Tue, 7 May 2002 12:39:55 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:39:54 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jim Binkley Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ok then stupid question about IBSS mode Message-ID: <20020507123954.B63106@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200205061640.JAA11219@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205061640.JAA11219@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Monday, 6 May 2002 at 9:40:24 -0700, Jim Binkley wrote: > > Aka ad hoc ... > > So we have an IBSS master and IBSS slaves. > > To setup a master then > > wicontrol -p 1 > wicontrol -c 1 > wicontrol -n "irulethelink" > > so non-masters are what then: ?! 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. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message