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Re: Mesh Support in brcmsmac

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 06:26 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:28:54PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > + linux-wireless
> > 
> > On 09/09/14 12:22, chandrika parimoo wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I have broadcom bcm4313 card and am using brcmsmac driver which does not
> > >have mesh support currently.
> > >I wanted to know if there is a workaround for it?
> > 
> > No workaround. I am not familiar with wireless mesh networking. I suppose
> > there are people on the linux-wireless mailing list who know what is needed
> > from a mac80211 driver (like brcmsmac) to enable mesh networking.
> 
> The main things is the beacons, no?

Yeah mainly beacons, but also 4addr frames and FIF_OTHER_BSS filter.

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