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Re: Adhoc-demo support in mac80211

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Yes, I have to disable beaconing. Is there any easy way to disable
them? Will this confuse the state machine in mac80211?

BTW, even if you do "iwconfig wlan0 ap..." the IBSS domain still might
split when the link loss rate is high, right?

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 16:48 -0400, ming li wrote:
>
>> The adhoc-demo mode is also called pseudo-adhoc mode. It is simply the
>> ad-hoc mode without control pkts. It does not probe for or associate
>> to adjacent adhoc networks. The user has to set all the nodes to the
>> same channel manually. The good thing of adhoc-demo is that it does
>> not have the beaconing overhead or the IBSS merging/splitting problem.
>
> Do you really need to disable beaconing, or would it be sufficient for
> you to just fix the BSSID and the channel? You can do those two already
> easily, something like
>        iwconfig wlan0 ap ...
>        iwconfig wlan0 channel ...
>
> johannes
>
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