IWSCANSWITCH



NAME
     iwscanswitch - Scan for access-points  and	 switch	 mode  of
     association  of  the device based on the presence of Infras-
     tructure or lack thereof.

SYNOPSIS
     iwscanswitch [interface] [SNR Threshold]

DESCRIPTION
     Written to	be a module for	the 7DS project, where it would be run
     as	a thread in the	background.

     In	its Current state, iwscanswitch can be thought	of  as	a
     top(1) like utility that scans for access-points in the
     vicinity for the interface	to be  associated  with.  If  the
     device cannot be associated to an AP in client mode, then it
     will switch to Ad-Hoc mode	with the ESSID '7DS'. If the card
     is	already	in ad-hoc mode,	and finds an AP	to associate with
     in	Client mode, it	will do	so.

PARAMETER
     SNR Threshold
	  Minimum acceptable threshold for the	device	based  on
	  which	switching of modes takes place.

EXAMPLE
     For an SNR	Threshold of 30	on interface eth0:
	  iwscanswitch eth0 30

NOTE
     There were	some issues encountered	during writing this,  all
     of	 which are hardware/firmware related. For troubleshooting
     them, refer to 'project.html'

AUTHOR
     Rajesh Menon (prm225 (at) cs (dot)	(nyu) (dot) (edu))

SEE ALSO
     ifconfig(8), iwspy(8), iwlist(8), iwpriv(8), dhclient(8)








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