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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

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