Error getting position: Router mac address query failed

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 09/22/2010 12:37 PM, Javier Fernandez Garcia-Boente wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:11 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
>> On 08/31/2010 03:26 PM, Javier Fernandez Garcia-Boente wrote:
>
>> There's still the question of what MAC address to use: we should of
>> course do what the databases do, but that's not so simple...
>>
>> Skyhook uses at least AP macs, there is no documentation so hard to say
>> anything else. Plazes was/is "free-for-all" database so it might contain
>> anything but their api docs clearly talk about "gateway mac address" so
>> current geoclue implementation is broken in my opinion, as it uses the
>> AP mac address. The gateway mac doesn't seem to be available via NM at
>> least.
>
> At least I read some info about Plazes using the router MAC. I've
> provided also some patches to use the router MAC instead the AP one.
>
> Connman has support for the getting the router MAC.

Ah thanks for that, now I looked in the right place and finally 
understand Bastiens "ip neigh show" comment. I'll test this and modify 
plazes to use gateway mac address based on the Plazes API docs -- 
localnet already does so.

-Jussi