Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] disassociating with AP after few minutes

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From: Anshul Jain <wit_anshuljain@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:37:51 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
Before listing my problem I will let you know my
configuration. I am using Cisco aironet 350 series
card and the respective driver on red hat 8.0 with
ethereal version  0.9.6 that comes with redhat 8.0.

My Basic Service Set includes two Access Points and
one laptop with wireless card. My university has its
own basic service set. But, I have specified the
SSID's of my AP's so that the wirless laptops looks
only for my AP's and not the university's AP.

The problem description is as follows:
After ethereal is started it captures packet for few
minutes. After that it disassociates with my Access
point and try to associate with my university's AP.
With in a second it again disassociates with
university's AP and associates with my AP and then
keeps flip-flopping between the two AP's every second.
This problem does not exists if I use some other
softwares like Iperf and Mgen. The problem is also
when I use TcpDump. So I beleive the problem is with
the libpcap library used by both of them. I even tried
to update the libpcap library with latest version
0.7.1. But on installation this version gives a weird
message saying that the version 0.6.x installed on my
system is newer than version 0.7.1 that I am trying to
install.

Can anybody help me please? 
 




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