[CUWiN-Dev] Re: Prism IBSS splits

[David Young]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:07:03PM -0500, Bill Comisky wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, David Young wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:05:46AM -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>Just wanted to let folks know that I've spent the last 2.5+ hours online
> >>from home using the Race St. wireless infrastructure -- I'm connected to
> >>the WAP located at Nicole's, then to the node on her roof to Laura's down
> >>the street and to Zach's before heading out to the Internet.  The
> >>connection is pretty stable -- my ssh connection gets dropped 2-3
> >>times/hour -- but it looks like some of those drops are due to our 
> >>network,
> >>and some due to problems in the outside internet (between 216.43.27.62 and
> >>64.198.100.85).  I've been able to download and upload my mail --
> >>downloaded Google talk in about 10 seconds (900KB), etc. all without any
> >>noticeable problems.  It would be good to figure out what's causing the
> >>jitter that ends up dropping the SSH connections (whether it's a range
> >>problem or a software one), but overall, this network is definitely usable
> >>for the average Internet junkie.
> >
> >You may have spoken too soon. :-) Nicole's went away again.  It looks
> >like an IBSS split.  Stupid Prism nodes.
> >
> >Dave
> 
> Any more thought to hard coding the BSSID?  We have some stupid Prism 
> nodes too.  Do you see any downside?

We can keep all of the Atheros nodes from splitting by hard-coding
the BSSID, but the Prism nodes will still split from the network.
Maybe we can make them re-join the network by advancing the TSF on the
Atheros nodes.  That will require some driver hackery.

Dave

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