[Olsr-users] Dual Mode Operation: One WLAN interface for both 801.11 infrastructure & OLSR?

[Aaron Kaplan]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Rajesh Narayanan wrote:

> hi,
>
> Here are some notes from trying to mess with dual mode operation.
>
> Got the dual mode operation partly working.
> 1. ath0  in adhoc mode
> 2. ath1 in ap mode
>
> Note that the adhoc mode interface needs to be created before the  
> ap. If you do the other way around, the hardware does not allow you  
> to add it. (sorry im not geeky enough to figure that out :-(  ). I  
> just tried this on an intuition (and a couple of caffeine shots)  
> and it seemed to do the trick.
>
> I got OLSR running on the ath0 and seems to work ok. But still have  
> not figured the ap mode as yet on ath1. I do get some MAC layer  
> exchanges (arps) so I know the interfaces ARE ok. But face a bummer  
> on the IP layer.
>
>                          ath0       ath1
> RouterA  <----------> RouterB <--------------> Laptop1
>              192.168.50.X       192.168.60.X
>               OLSR
>       <--- pings ok --->        <---pings not ok -->
>                                       <-------- arps   ------>

subnetmasks are 255.255.255.0 ?
what does your routing table say on B, A and the laptop?


>
> Hope someone in the list can help.
>
> Thanks,
> Rajesh.
>
>
>
> On 9/2/07, Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:11 AM, Rajesh Narayanan wrote:
>
> > Not sure what the configuration is. But I dont think its likely to
> > work. Atheros supports multiple modes but I didnt see anything
> > related to a dual-mode operation.
> >
>
> Rajesh:
>
> As said, I did not try it out myself but try this:
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/ngFeatures
>
> Is that what you were looking for?
>
> best,
> aaron.
>
> > Let me know what the interfaces need to be set to. I have the
> > configuration here  and can try it quite quickly.
> > - R
> >
> > On 8/22/07, Rajesh Narayanan < (spam-protected)> wrote: 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:
> >
> > > 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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