[Fwd: delay in adhoc mode]

[Jouni Malinen]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:35:03PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> I think you should be able to transmit frames in the monitor mode if you
> fully prepare them without reliance on the driver.  The function to
> transmit ready frames is called prism2_tx_80211().  You may be able to use
> it from the userspace through the wlan0ap interface if you enable hostap
> support.

I would not recommend using monitor mode for any "normal operation".
Some cards might not ACK frames in this mode, etc. If the goal is to
avoid auth/assoc latency, using pseudo-IBSS mode could be another
alternative. At least with old Lucent cards, pseudo adhoc mode did not
use auth/assoc at all, it just started using IBSS
(BSSID=00:00:00:00:00:00) immediately. One just needed to set STAs on
the same channel and that's it.. I haven't tested Prism2 pseudo IBSS
mode that much, but I would assume that it has similar behavior.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA