From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a simple wireless mesh network
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:28:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282836490.3812.66.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimNA_i8Za8xOh8XffdkrE7wFLc9GBs4JSPAsT3+@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:19 -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?
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/mac80211_hwsim
plus network namespaces, on a very new kernel where that actually works
(like current wireless-testing)
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-26 15:28 UTC|newest]
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2010-08-26 15:19 a simple wireless mesh network Joel Fernandes
2010-08-26 15:24 ` John W. Linville
2010-08-26 15:28 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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