IBSS (was: full-duplex 802.11?)

[Andronikos Nedos]

Ivo wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:32:08AM +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
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>>This is exactly how an adhoc 802.11 network (IBSS) is supposed to work
>>as specified in IEEE 802.11 standard. A card can create an IBSS and
>>start sending beacons about it. The other nodes can join it and they
>>obviously need to change to the same channel. They will thus end up into
>>the channel configured for the node that created the IBSS.
>>
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>It would be OK if it would end up into the channel created with requested
>ESSID but when you request to connect to ESSID e.g. "wlan" and end up on
>channel with ESSID "xyz" it is rather problematic :-(
>
>Regards,
>
>Ivo.
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>

Hi,

Is there any way to capture this request/respone functionality in IBSS 
(Ad Hoc) mode? Meaning that,
presumably this mechanism is coded into the card's firmware, but does 
the driver expose any
kind of interface to discover and identify the  neighboring nodes?

Best Regards,
/Andronikos