<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Hi everyone,</P>
<P>I needed some advice. I am building a gateway from a Adhoc to Infrastructure mode network.<BR>I am using Hostap for my infrastructure AP and AODV-uu-0.9.1 as my routing protocol in the Adhoc network to extend its reach. <BR>My settings are:<BR>Hardware :<BR> Dell Latitude with Linux FC4 2.6.12.1 kernel<BR>Cards:<BR> wlan0 --- Netgear MA401 (Prism 2.5, 1.7.1 firmware) IP 192.168.1.1 mask 255.255.255.0 (channel 6, essid wireless) <BR> eth0 --- Dell Truemobile 1150 IP 192.168.2.1 mask 255.255.255.0 (channel 11, essid wireless2)</P>
<P>The Laptop has both the cards in it with hostap loaded and running the netgear card in Master mode and the Dell in adhoc mode. AODV is been put on eth0 and is running in with the gateway option of AODV (a note about the aodv states that version 0.9.0 had some gateway function problems but dont see that mentioned for 0.9.1).<BR>While AODV is working wonderfully for the adhoc portion, i am having a problem with joiing it to the HOSTAP side. I cant get AODV to see the HOSTAP network (192.168.1.0/24) on any other machine but the gateway itself. even when i added eth0 as the default gateway for the 192.168.2.0/24 network and 192.168.1.1 as the default gateway for the 192.168.1.0/24 network on the Dell laptop.<BR>Since AODV works on sending out hello messages to detect route before transmitting i was wondering if that was the reason it was not seeing HOSTAP, is there a way to get hostap to send back a reply to those hello messages? Or is there any way to connect the networks?</P>
<P>I tried putting the wlan0 network on the same essid (wireless2) and channel (6) and tried to ping from another machine, i was able to successfully ping directly.. i.e another machine 192.168.2.3 was able to ping 192.168.1.1 rather then via 192.168.2.1 (the default gateway) but this was without AODV up, when i fired up AODV it failed... I even tried puting wlan0 on the same subnet 192.168.2.1 and changed eth0 to 192.168.2.2 but that did not help.... Would bridging help? Although i have two different modes Master mode (wlan0) and Adhoc mode (eth0)... I needed to use AODV as i wanted to extend my network in adhoc mode, and i am stuck with using two wireless interfaces in the same machine. Hence i am trying for a solution with that in mind... </P>
<P>Any help would be appreciated</P>
<P>Cheers<BR><BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
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