Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:53657 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbYBFOKu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:10:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging From: Johannes Berg To: bruno randolf Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , jirislaby@gmail.com, mickflemm@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, Ivo van Doorn In-Reply-To: <200802051050.22187.bruno@thinktube.com> References: <20080118125252.6455.41047.stgit@one> <200801251701.59629.bruno@thinktube.com> <43e72e890802021522g5bffe97cg31ba57f6f1f200b9@mail.gmail.com> <200802051050.22187.bruno@thinktube.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CzTjDSZN0IhHzF/XyY5H" Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:01:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1202292101.4395.32.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080206_141054_045420_6627165F) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-CzTjDSZN0IhHzF/XyY5H Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > A solution to this we implemented at Orbit with MadWifi was > > that instead of generating "random" BSSIDs you'd create one based on > > the hash of the SSID [1]. > this looks like a good idea to avoid many ibss merge problems, and it cou= ld be=20 > really useful to have that (maybe as an option?) in mac80211. but unless = we=20 > have ibss merge functionality you won't be able to join older networks=20 > (higher TSF) which don't use that scheme, so we still need that to be abl= e to=20 > communicate with other ("standard") drivers. I think we should simply allow setting the BSSID (SIOCSIWAP maybe?) on IBSS interfaces and punt this issue to userspace. johannes --=-CzTjDSZN0IhHzF/XyY5H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIVAwUAR6mFhKVg1VMiehFYAQLF5hAAxEQEdGBxeKmHcfSDH59nho9K1KKOlXJK XxlOC33FJYp0EcR17Mq9cuwqrc5fuX0HfwWYoVmLgeA5W2UQfrTQNsWJqKDHpSYF LijeHJPJhHhi2fALYjfJqpqtT8h7LVvDZZev89eakMu6AOoomQsS0L9TmPXisuGZ xpZ8CQREPFMg8ClntzU4+Vx/ND316WSo4o3tmSC2YdI0pwDto7iOnTvjMzDxtN+S GLzPb4Qs6i5L+o6j4qZNKhnVVNydhSRxJXQkRAANSpEkVAZKJa7Bxy+1xrzrGJ/T x02n0e7MNgsr9cN69XFUGnm/bH36ULSOBFMpgs/8fqb5MDV6N0jhjQlimlXmLlZX rMtGqe4DcJTOTAT6vzebidNCZ5CAagS9eXvJZlFE0Nmvu17tMQA1WK6BUTssO93a EmNvL8jCkie91jdr7zDCIHcTUkTB6HwqQSI7wOy3kF/2+rZaBfCVYzGyCcHMnwAQ NpnlTZaLGdu/7p39ITANtdxVJfkvSXsPlS/J8b1t/WlpjYhoG6pwO5M91yXl6Q45 0bPJyXe6yUCvJTuqYHUP0JvyXsyscrrZ/jDiCb+Jb277aty7XIDjxyBUjP6KjQq+ rXhEZUh8fLZ5eBEerHjBjZoh4U79CQGDJ0FY4GmNcnK6MDPtT13/s7mvq+V7SN2o p6QGpiCb8tM= =W4z9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CzTjDSZN0IhHzF/XyY5H--