On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:26:16 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> These devices usually have fairly weak processors...definately not
> enough to run a bunch of VOIP calls, for instance. And, it means you
> cannot use whatever real applications you might already have installed
> on your wired devices (databa
Jiri Benc wrote:
The end result is a wireless station emulator that can easily be made to pass
interesting traffic generated on common hardware/platforms. It should be useful
for testing APs and AP deployments, including things like VOIP over wifi.
Ok, I can see the benefit from this for tes
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:39:31 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> WDS appears to work between APs..but I want to bridge wifi clients to wired
> clients.
>
> The network would be something like:
>
> wired-server -- AP {{{wireless}}} virtual-station-emulator -- { multiple
> wired machines }
wired-server -
Jiri Benc wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:51:05 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
This bridge module would not be used on an AP acting as an AP, but rather
a piece of access-point hardware running virtual client interfaces which are
associated with a real AP. If my understanding is correct (and that coul
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:51:05 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> This bridge module would not be used on an AP acting as an AP, but rather
> a piece of access-point hardware running virtual client interfaces which are
> associated with a real AP. If my understanding is correct (and that could
> always be a
Jiri Benc wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:09:13 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
The AP will act like a bridge/switch according to these rules:
If a packet enters the wifi device, it will be sent down the wired
ethernet interface un-changed.
If a packet enters the wired device, the wifi device with the
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:09:13 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> The AP will act like a bridge/switch according to these rules:
>
> If a packet enters the wifi device, it will be sent down the wired
> ethernet interface un-changed.
>
> If a packet enters the wired device, the wifi device with the same
> M
I am working on a WiFi virtual station emulator, and need a
bastardized version of a bridge to make it work.
The basic idea is to have a linux based AP that supports
virtual wifi clients (it actually won't be acting as an AP at all).
There are proprietary stacks that support
this, and hopefully
