[Prism54-users] getoid bsslist

[Aquila]

_Clients_ in ad-hoc mode do give SSIDs, just like an
AP does. A client in ad-hoc mode sends beacons like an
AP, with bit1 set in the capability info field instead
of bit0. 
When getting the bsslist (1c000043) it retrieves both
APs and Ad-Hoc nodes. The obj_bss struct has a member
called 'capinfo' and you can retrieve the info from
that. (BIT0 = ESS, BIT1 = IBSS, CF POLLABLE,
CF_POLLREQUEST, PRIVACY, etc..).



-----Original Message-----
From: prism54-users-admin@prism54.org
[mailto:prism54-users-admin@prism54.org] On Behalf Of
Tom Hanks
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:23 AM
To: Luis R. Rodriguez
Cc: prism54-users@prism54.org
Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] getoid bsslist

thanks for the quick reply.
gotcha! i wont. wasnt really sure where this would
have belonged. until n unless i contribute to the
project, ill keep posting as a user.  :)

i didnt know that APs in ad-hoc mode do not send their
essids. hmm. if that were the case, then how is it
that sniffers like kismet pick up their names (yeah, i
checked on it, and it did list the names of the
ad-hox).

i thought that the 'monitor' mode on the orinocos
would be what i shoulda been lookin at, and got it set
up to call using 'iwpriv'. 
there are a coupla things i noticed there. unlike a
sniffer listing all APs (infrastructure/ad-hoc) that
transmit beacons, if i have to monitor using ioctls
via 'iwpriv', i have to specify the channel to listen
to. for instance, i would have to do a 'iwpriv
<interface> monitor <set_val> <channel>'.
if i do the above, it would start listening in on that
channel - i was trying to look at what tcpdump gives -
and it seems to work, albeit without much information
about the AP which has formed the cell. if i dont list
the channel, well ...

so, thats also a problem. like, how would you go about
scanning for all 'possible' points regardless of
channel, mode, race/color ... ?

thanks again for your inputs (and im glad to know the
GT is progressing nicely - it seems better than the
card im using right now, and ill be getting one for
use on this again.)
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