[CUWiN-Dev] IBSS Split aka BSSID wars?

[David Young]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:52:35PM +0200, Sven-Ola Tuecke wrote:
> This is a "Hello" from Berlin / Germany :)
> 
> To my understanding CUWiN is also using AdHoc/IBSS on the wireless side of 
> your mesh. Do you have a found a good answer to cope with IBSS splits 
> situations? IBSS split should be experienced in every bigger mesh because 
> the underlying technology is the same. Basically this happens in mixed 
> hardware environments with a lot of different 802.11 protocol stack 
> implementations. Or is this unknown in BSD only environments? Sorry if this 
> questions sounds dumb, but I can assure you that it isn't.

I have not noticed serious problems with BSSID splits since we eliminated
most of the Intersil Prism II adapters from our network.  Intersil,
Lucent, and Cisco/Aironet adapters were notorious for causing splits.

Some people have protected against splits by forcing a fixed BSSID on
those cards that support it.

In NetBSD, I fixed bugs in the 802.11 layer (net80211) and in the Atheros
driver that would lead to splits.

Dave

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