On Friday 15 February 2008 10:06:37 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > i think the point here is that we still need to be prepared to merge > > IBSS (i.e. switch to another BSSID when we receive a beacon with an older > > TSF) no matter how we generate our own BSSID in the first place. > > Well that is still possible. > > > using a hash of the BSSID and channel would reduce the necessity to > > merge IBSS for mac80211 drivers but we still need to be able to join > > older IBSS from other drivers. > > Sure, how is it that this prevents that? it wouldn't :) i agree to johannes approach to set the BSSID from userspace, so people can use all sorts of hashing algorithms to set the bssid. we could implement a default hashing algorithm in "iw" maybe, and introduce a flag "dont merge ibss" to prevent ibss merge for situations where we know we don't want that... "iwconfig wlan0 ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" doesn't work for ibss right now (i'll try to look into that today). bruno - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
