Setting up a wireless Testbed…(Host-AP drivers)

S#1: Machine A Master Mode and Machine B Managed Mode.

Machine A:

$sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Master
$sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid “Hello-1″

Set the Static IP Address: 10.10.5.2 Mask: 255.0.0.0

root@Ubuntu-01:/etc/network# iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 19
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
Some things may be broken…

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:”Hello-1″
Mode:Master Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

root@Ubuntu-01:/etc/network# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:34:0B:79
inet addr:10.10.5.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe34:b79/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4970 (4.8 KiB) TX bytes:5220 (5.0 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0×3100

Machine B:

$sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed

Set the Static IP Address: 10.10.5.3 Mask: 255.0.0.0

Important : Gateway wlan0
Connect to EssID : Hello-1

fawad@nicta123:~$ iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 19
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
Some things may be broken…

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:”Hello-1″
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:02:6F:34:0B:79
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=56/70 Signal level=-19 dBm Noise level=-75 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:3 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:30 Invalid misc:12165 Missed beacon:0

fawad@nicta123:~$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:29:92:EE
inet addr:10.10.5.3 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8799 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:853532 (833.5 KiB) TX bytes:1505635 (1.4 MiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100

Now try pingning from the both ends. I think they should work.

S#2: Both Machine A & B in Ad-Hoc Mode.

Now in this case we have to see that in order for the machines to work in Ad-Hoc mode they should have same essid and channel.

Now lets configure machine A:

$sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc
$sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 3
$sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid “Home”

fawad@Ubuntu-01:~$ iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 19
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
Some things may be broken…

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:”Home”
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.422 GHz Cell: 02:60:1B:27:92:EE
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=56/70 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:22 Invalid misc:40 Missed beacon:0

fawad@Ubuntu-01:~$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:34:0B:79
inet addr:10.10.5.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe34:b79/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13304 (12.9 KiB) TX bytes:17560 (17.1 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0×3100

On Machine B:

$sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc
$sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 3
$sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid “Home”

fawad@nicta123:~$ iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 19
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
Some things may be broken…

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:”Home”
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.422 GHz Cell: 02:60:1B:27:92:EE
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=55/70 Signal level=-18 dBm Noise level=-73 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:52 Invalid misc:984 Missed beacon:0

fawad@nicta123:~$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:29:92:EE
inet addr:10.10.5.3 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::260:b3ff:fe29:92ee/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:271 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13300 (12.9 KiB) TX bytes:24228 (23.6 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100

Now try pinging each of the hosts i guess they should work.