Re: Emulating a wireless access point

[Robert van der Meulen <rvdm () cistron nl>]

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

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