Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of HowTo/bssidFix

Timestamp:

Aug 25, 2006, 11:42:04 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

cmdavies

Comment:

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HowTo/bssidFix

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 Unfortunately, this algorithm and/or implementation is not very good and even relatively small networks, nodes that have the same 'essid' will end up with different a 'bssid'. Since the wifi card drivers filter by bsssid, nodes that should be in the same ad-hoc network can't exchange packets.
 
-The solution to this problem can be found by modifying the madwifi drivers (for Atheros wifi cards only), so that the bssid a node generates is a hash of the essid instead of its MAC address. This ensures that nodes with indentical essid's end up with identical bssid's.
+The solution to this problem can be found by modifying the madwifi drivers (for Atheros wifi cards only), so that the bssid a node generates is a hash of the essid instead of its MAC address. This ensures that nodes with identical essid's end up with identical bssid's.
 
 Although it has not been extensively tested with non-modified nodes, this modification to the madwifi drivers should be fully backwards compatible with non-modified nodes.
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 root@node1-2:~$ make
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- * Copy the modifed madwifi drivers to where the kernel expects them
+ * Copy the modified madwifi drivers to where the kernel expects them
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 root@node1-2:~$ cp /usr/src/madwifi/trunk/net80211/*.ko /lib/modules/2.6.12/net