Re: wrong fix? Re: [Madwifi-devel] fix for ad-hoc mode bug

[Sam L. <sa...@er...>]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 11:48 am, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> OK..I have been thinking about this fix. It does not seem logical now.
>
> When a new (ad hoc) node comes up, it should *not* directly create an
> IBSS. It should scan a *single* configured channel to see if there are
> other nodes that have created an IBSS and then join that IBSS.
>
> The fix (as I interpret it) causes every ad hoc node to go create its
> own IBSS - hence they cannot communicate with each other, even though on
> the same channel. Now, for some strange reason, (for me) it seems to
> work on channel 1 but not on the others.
>
> Let me know what you all think.

There is no logic to do IBSS merge at the moment so the change is fine.  The 
whole scanning logic needs to be redone.

	Sam