ORBIT-USER: question about sample script.

[Sachin Ganu]

On 12/27/06, Andrea G. Forte <andreaf at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Sachin,
>
> thanks a lot for your response. So basically that is the MAC address of
> the node in master mode to which the node in managed mode is associated
> to. Right?
That is correct


So if I have two nodes in master mode and many in managed
> mode, each node in managed node will show the MAC address of the node in
> master mode it is connected to.

Right again, however lets say you have two nodes as Masters on the
same ESSID, their BSSID will still be different (respective MAC
addresses). It is upto the driver/fw implementation on the card, how
it will choose which Master to associate to.
But once associated , the card will show the BSSID of the Master it is
connected to

> -Andrea
>
>
> Sachin Ganu wrote:
> > Hi Andrea
> > This message reports the BSSID of the network. For any two nodes to
> > communicate they need to be in the same BSSID.BSSID is usually the MAC
> > address of the interface that is the first one to create the network.
> > Other devices (of the same ESSID) simply join this network and retain
> > the BSSID heard from the beacons
> >
> > Hope I have not confused you
> >
> > -Sachin
> >
> > On 12/27/06, Andrea G. Forte <andreaf at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I was using one of the sample scripts on sb7 and when running the
> >> experiment I noticed:
> >> INFO n_1_2: Device 'net/w0' reported 00:60:B3:AC:A1:9A
> >> INFO n_1_1: Device 'net/w0' reported 00:60:B3:AC:A1:9A
> >>
> >> If I understand this output correctly it would seem to say that the two
> >> nodes have the w0 interface with the same MAC address? How is this
> >> possible?
> >> Any clarification on this is much appreciated.
> >>
> >> -Andrea
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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