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Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-14 08:13:11
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:22:25 -0500
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:

Another suggestion - it would have been real useful if the software
on my laptop could have been told to ignore some APs (or some other
laptops pretending to be APs), or to only listen to this other set
of APs.  White/black listing of APs...

On Linux machines, as root type the command:

iwconfig eth1 ap 00:0C:30:1A:69:A2

To force the access point to be 00:0c:30:1A:69:A2

You're lucky that your driver and card support this.
 
I don't know if there's a way to make this work for those cards where
the ap selection is done in firmware.

Unfortunately, the driver for my Lucent card doesn't support this
command and I presume that it's not possible w/ the current firmware. As
someone already stated: though the card was quite good and stable at
past meetings, this time it was really annoying. Either the firmware
needs an update to take the new conditions (mixed environment w/ ad-hoc
nets) into account or I'll have to change the vendor.

Roland



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