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Re: Emulating a wireless access point
From: Robert van der Meulen <rvdm () cistron nl>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:36:23 +0200
Hi, Quoting Steve Skoronski (skoronski () ctidata com):
Has anyone seen software to emulate this on a PC/Laptop with a wi-fi card? Or should I go look for a used AP?
I have been thinking about that, seeing the high density of (non-WEP) wireless traffic at HAL2001 :) I have tried stuff like you're describing by putting my WiFi card in 'Master' mode, setting the essid to the network's essid. I haven't gotten really far with this, also due to beer and other fun things, but afaik it should work.
From the 'iwconfig' manpage, the section about 'mode':
|Set the operating mode of the device, which depends |on the network topology. The mode can be Ad-hoc |(network composed of only one cell and without |Access Point), Managed (network composed of many |cells, with roaming or with an Access Point), Mas? |ter (the node is the synchronisation master or act |as an Access Point), Repeater (the node forward |packets on the air), Secondary (the node act as a |backup master/repeater) or Auto. So 'iwconfig eth0 essid "HAL"' and 'iwconfig eth0 mode Master' should do the trick (probably the other way around). Greets, Robert -- Linux Generation encrypted mail preferred. finger rvdm () debian org for my GnuPG/PGP key. "Cleveland? Yes, I spent a week there one day." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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