ad-hoc scanning

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Tue Apr 5 22:21:42 EDT 2005


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:20:18PM +0200, Leonardo Maccari wrote:

> In ad-hoc mode I need to know which machines are my neighbour, and their
> MAC address to start a 4-way handshake with them. I've seen that
> wpa_supplicant_get_scan_results() gives scan results in this structure:

You would not use IEEE 802.11 scanning for this. Instead, 4-Way
Handshake should be triggered when you have data to send to a neighbor.
If you need to get list of neighbors, that would need to be collected
based on source addresses of the received frames.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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