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Re: [PATCH v2] d80211: Add software sequence support

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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:58 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:

> Both.
> 
> When you have a WDS link and some other wireless interface at the same
> time, their source addresses are (in most cases) the same. You want to
> have the sequence control counter shared by them. Actually, it will
> probably work most of time even when they have different counters. The
> situation where it won't work is if you have two virtual interfaces,
> one in STA and second in WDS mode, both connected to the same AP. I
> can't figure out how this particular setup could be useful but it's
> generally not disallowed.
> 
> Anyway, using different counter for a WDS interface probably violates
> 802.11 (although it's not much specific in this case). I believe it
> will work in most cases, though.
> 
> Any ideas how to solve that?

Make the counter per-mac address?

johannes

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