seeting up ad-hoc network

manishas at cdacindia.com manishas
Fri Nov 7 00:21:00 PST 2003


hello,
       following is the output of the iwconfig command when i am trying to
setup ad-hoc network...

1.this is output from machine having cisco-aironet card
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test-adhoc"  Nickname:"navin"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: 8E:00:E0:03:8D:01
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=17 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:55/10  Signal level:-60 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:33  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:4  Invalid misc:30188   Missed beacon:1

wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test-adhoc"  Nickname:"navin"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: 8E:00:E0:03:8D:01
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=17 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:55/10  Signal level:-60 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:33  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:4  Invalid misc:30188   Missed beacon:1

2.this is output of machine having hostap driver

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test-adhoc" 
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: 8E:00:E0:03:8D:01
          Bit Rate=2Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:34/92  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-100 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:22  Invalid misc:1560   Missed beacon:0


i am not able to ping the machines 

what is problem?

neither of the two pcs have the mac address as shown by cell.


thanx in advance
manisha




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