Hello Justyn. There is no need to send that information in the Beacon frame. It is sent in RANN Action broadcast frame with Gateway bit set in Flags field.
Cheers, Vadim On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Justyn Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there a way in which you can get information about gateway nodes, ie, > nodes that have mesh_hwmp_rootmode and mesh_gate_announcements set = 1? > > I'm considering a project in which gateways can come and go, and all other > nodes will need to somehow get information about which nodes on the mesh > network are gateways. I have considered writing a program in which a > beacon is sent out at about once every 5 seconds from a gateway node, where > all other nodes can use the source address of this beacon to know the > address of the gateway. But since a node that is enabled with > mesh_gate_announcements is probably sending out some sort of beacon anyway, > I thought there was an easier way. > > It seems like there should be an iw dev MESH_INTF gateway dump, but either > I'm completely blind, or nothing is implemented. > > -- > Justyn > > ______________________________**_________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open80211s.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel<http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel> >
_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
