Re: [Madwifi-devel] Partial Solution for Stuck Beacons (IBSS)

[Felix F. <nb...@op...>]

Sven-Ola Tücke wrote:
> For some funny reason, with a faked BSSID all standard unicast packets can be 
> received as usual. Arp is working too. But no broadcast packets with eth dest 
> = ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff show up. At least if tcpdump is _not_ running. No 
> broadcast, no OLSR messages. OK - switching on promisc flag in 
> ath_hal_setrxfilter() again does the trick. 
IMHO there's a simpler way to disable the adhoc specific behavior wrt. IBSS
merging. Simply set HAL_M_HOSTAP instead of HAL_M_IBSS when setting the HAL
operation mode. That way you won't have to use the promiscuous mode or mess
with the associd. Please try it and let me know if it works.

- Felix