> > A solution to this we implemented at Orbit with MadWifi was
> > that instead of generating "random" BSSIDs you'd create one based on
> > the hash of the SSID [1].
> this looks like a good idea to avoid many ibss merge problems, and it could be
> really useful to have that (maybe as an option?) in mac80211. but unless we
> have ibss merge functionality you won't be able to join older networks
> (higher TSF) which don't use that scheme, so we still need that to be able to
> communicate with other ("standard") drivers.
I think we should simply allow setting the BSSID (SIOCSIWAP maybe?) on
IBSS interfaces and punt this issue to userspace.
johannes
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