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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Erwin Van de Velde
<erwin.vandevelde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2013 09:42:31 Helmut Schaa wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Erwin Van de Velde
>>
>> <erwin.vandevelde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > In a test setup with 802.11a/n a colleague and I tried enabling
> RTS/CTS.
>> > The only thing we got however was a CTS to self. RTS threshold was
> 1000B,
>> > packet size 1400B.
>>
>> Did you use 11n aggregation?
>
> Yes, but afterwards we also tried it with 802.11a, same result.

Bad. I expected this to work ...

>> > We looked for other options but did not find anything
>> > helpful, what else can we try to enable RTS/CTS?
>>
>> Yup, there are several issues there:
>> - The hw ignores RTS thresholds for AMPDUs AFAIK
>> - HT protection always uses CTS-to-self (hardcoded in driver in
>> rt2800_config_ht_opmode)
>>
>> I don't think any other driver allows to configure if RTS-CTS or
>> CTS-to-self should be used?
>> You can easily enforce RTS-CTS for 11n transmissions by changing
>> rt2800_config_ht_opmode.
>
> Where do I configure that? Is it in the source code or is it a kernel
> module parameter?

You'd need to change the source code of rt2800_config_ht_opmode.

Helmut
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