Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:46534 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753989Ab0HZP3k (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:29:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:24:40 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Joel Fernandes Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: a simple wireless mesh network Message-ID: <20100826152439.GA2464@tuxdriver.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:19:23AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > Hi, > I am studying wireless mesh networks and wanted to play with open80211s. > As a part of my study, I want to demo, multiple nodes on a mesh > network and analyze the traffic in wireshark > > Unfortunately I don't have many physical nodes so I'm looking for a > way to emulate them. > > So far I've learnt that vmware and virtual box don't support virtual > wireless network adapters. > > Any other suggestion that would make creating a wireless mesh network > for study purposes quick and painless? mac80211_hwsim claims mesh support... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.