Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging

[bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>]

On Friday 15 February 2008 10:06:37 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >  i think the point here is that we still need to be prepared to merge
> > IBSS (i.e. switch to another BSSID when we receive a beacon with an older
> > TSF) no matter how we generate our own BSSID in the first place.
>
> Well that is still possible.
>
> >  using a hash of the BSSID and channel would reduce the necessity to
> > merge IBSS for mac80211 drivers but we still need to be able to join
> > older IBSS from other drivers.
>
> Sure, how is it that this prevents that?

it wouldn't :)

i agree to johannes approach to set the BSSID from userspace, so people can 
use all sorts of hashing algorithms to set the bssid. we could implement a 
default hashing algorithm in "iw" maybe, and introduce a flag "dont merge 
ibss" to prevent ibss merge for situations where we know we don't want 
that...

"iwconfig wlan0 ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" doesn't work for ibss right now (i'll 
try to look into that today).

bruno