Roland - I'll just note that when I ran the AODV code earlier today, I had to hand reset noth my mode & my essid (redhat linux/ wiconfig) after stopping the test code - this may not be totally transparent to folks and they may reset the ssid but miss the mode setting... Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Roland Bless wrote: > Hi, > > > We have been getting some reports of rooted machines (IETF Attendee machines, > > not IETF NOC Machines) that are scanning and causing a lot of traffic on the > > network. IP Addresses are: > > 130.129.139.106 > > 130.129.139.203 > > Please check your machines for these addresses. If they are yours, please > > stop by the terminal room, and ask for help. > > It's not only this, but people are still running their cards in ad-hoc mode. > While I'm not an expert on this, I just saw several cards in ad-hoc mode > in Salon B (mip6 session). > There is an ongoing AODV test and I asked the guys at the help desk whether > there may be problems with WLAN infrastructure. They said, "oh no, as long > as the ssid is different from ietf58, there should be no problem". However, > I just saw my card (in managed mode) connecting to a card in ad-hoc mode > with a different ssid than ietf58 (I scanned that with my PDA at the same time). > My Orinoco card has the latest firmware (8.72) and possibly my linux driver > is broken, but obviously there exists this subtle difference between theory > and practice (at least for my configuration, sorry). This is really annoying, > because it happened several times today. > Besides the fact that I've also seen cards in ad-hoc mode advertising "ietf58", > I was wondering what others think about interference between ad-hoc mode and > infrastructure mode. > > > We are monitoring the mailing list 58crew@xxxxxxxx for problems. > > Comments, suggestions, issues are very welcome here. > > We would rather hear of a problem many times on the list, then not at all or > > by way of rumor through the meetings. Please let us know your concerns. > > Thanks for your support, > Roland > > > > > >