ORBIT-USER: BSSID/CELL issues in ad-hoc mode

[Sachin Ganu]

Hi Chris,
I believe this functionality for Atheros is embedded in the HAL
somewhere. In other words, this now gets us into the wireless driver
domain (outside of ORBIT's control, unfortunately :-)

If you are using ad-hoc mode, depending on how it is implemented, the
responsibility of cell formation and maintenance is distributed and
clearly there are some synchronization problems when the number of
nodes goes up.. Hence, some of them start to create their own BSSID's
for the same ESSID.

.no solution yet...hence only commiserations. :-)

-Sachin

On 8/23/06, chris at orderonenetworks.com <chris at orderonenetworks.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can help.
>
> I've got most of the grid fired up and have huge problems with the radio's
> coming up with their own CELL/BSSID numbers and then changing them about
> every 5 secs or so. This means that I am basically unable to build a
> network in the grid. Sandbox nodes have no such problems - most likely
> this is a size related issue.
>
> Is there anyway to manually set the CELL/BSSID, or have the cards ignore
> this value so it doesn't matter?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>