I have 3 RPI and TP-LINK TL-wr723n V3. I configured it in ad-hoc mode and it works. When I am taking RPI3 of network coverage RPI 1 and 2 lose connection. But when take RPI3 back connection is not restored. Before it lose connection all 3 PRI has the same Cell in iwconfig wlan0 , after RPI 1,2 has the same Cell but this value different from RPI 3 Cell value.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Pi" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:11:87:5E:A4:01
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr: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
I want to set Cell ID into unchangeable value. iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX should do it but it change Cell field randomly like: 02:11:87:4B:37:00 02:11:87:2D:3E:00 02:11:87:73:44:00
Why is this happening?
And: Is it true that Cell field, Cell ID and BSSID is the same things? Is it true that iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX change exactly Cell ID in ad-hoc mode?
I use Raspbian Kernel Linux 3.12.35+ #730 PREEMPT Fri Dec 19 18:31:24 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux