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

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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 23:07 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2007 22:14, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Wouldn't that be the same as per-interface?

Don't WDS interfaces have the same MAC as the corresponding AP
interface?

johannes

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