Joerg, it is recommended practice to never remove people from CC, that applies to From: too, so you should have sent a copy of your mail directly to Larry as well. > what does SIOCGIWRATE do for IBSS networks? In this case you might > have a different rate for every node in your network. Looking up just > "sdata->u.sta.bssid" is insufficient because the BSSID of an IBSS > network is not a real MAC address (after all, there is no AP). Nothing. It returns -EOPNOTSUPP, read the code. > I would very much like an official way to enumerate the current rates > for all known stations in an IBSS network. This information would be > useful for AdHoc routing: Currently most approaches use packet loss to > weight different links. In this case a link might look better than it > actually is, because rate control already lowered the current rate to > a level where no packet loss occured whereas another link with higher > data rate looks bad because it drops a packet now and than. > > Is there a way to get this information? No. Feel free to come up with a spec and implement it for cfg80211/nl80211 johannes
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