BSSID and MAC address

Jouni Malinen j
Wed Sep 30 15:05:40 PDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:47:40PM +0200, Tobias Heer wrote:

> Is there a way to set the bssid independently of the mac address of  
> the router's wlan0 interface? Is there some other way to decouple the  
> destination mac address of the ping packets from the bssid of the AP?

I would not try to separate BSSID from the MAC address of wlan0, but you
could assign another MAC address for another interface (say, for wired
network or even a virtual interface for that matter) and use that as the
destination address instead of the BSSID.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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