iwspy and mac address

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:36:23AM -0600, Shweta Bhandare wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> 	I have this weird problem am just not able to solve. I am sending you this
> code.

[snip]

> Now, the signal strength is always 0 when i use this code snippet.

Signal strength is always 0 if you're in ad-hoc mode, because it's not
a well defined quantity (signal strength is different from each
station).
 
> However, if i use system("iwspy eth0 128.138.198.91"); instead of the mac
> address, I get the correct value of
> the signal strength.

...but if you have a spy list signal strength will be taken from the
first spy address.

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