[Olsr-users] One WLAN interface for both 801.11 infrastructure & OLSR?

[Rajesh Narayanan]

I would be quite interested in this as well. Will test this scenario as soon
as I can get my board (montejade-platform) to behave!

Do you know what the dual mode is called?

Thanks,
Rajesh.

On 8/22/07, Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
>
> zeta,
>
> basically point 1 to remember is: olsr is more or less agnostic to
> what the lower levels are doing since it is level 3.
>
> That said, yes there are features in atheros based cards where you
> can have ad-hoc and managed mode at once in parallel on one card.
> However, I never tested that myself. Maybe somebody else can report
> on that.
>
> cheers,
> aaron.
>
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 4:49 PM, zeta zappa wrote:
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> > Hi all -
> >
> > I am a new user experimenting with OLSR for laptop
> > internet connectivity.  After reading the
> > documentation, is it possible to have a laptop with a
> > WLAN card attach to both a 802.11 network in
> > infrastructure mode (to connect to the Internet), and
> > a MANET using OLSR?  Thus the laptop would be the
> > gateway between MANET devices and the Internet.  Here
> > is the catch: the laptop only has one WLAN interface;
> > there is not the option to connect to the internet via
> > ethernet.
> >
> > Assuming this is possible (perhaps a big assumption),
> > which is the best way?  Is there a way to do via HNA4
> > and INTERFACES in olsrd.conf?  Or should I be looking
> > at a different olsrd.conf option?
> >
> > A related question:  where is the SSID set?  Or in
> > this scenario, will the gateway laptop propigate the
> > SSID of the 801.11 AP?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice!
> >
> > Zeta
> >
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