Hi.
When doing "iw dev wlan0 set noack_map 0x0009", frames are sent with
"Ack Policy" set to "No Ack" (at QoS header), receiver don't ack those
frames and I guess that "minstrel_ht" falls to lowest bitrate possible
or it is disabled when iw command is executed. At this point, manually
setting a bitrate with "iw dev wlan0 set bitrates ht-mcs-5 8" doesn't
throw a error and also doesn't change bitrate to the desired one, so,
it doesn't work.
I partially agree with you, setting for example MCS 15 after
noack_map, due to lack of acks and block acks, bitrate could be higher
than expected because when transmitter is transmitting, with or
without frame aggregation, it doesn't have to pass to receiver mode
(hardware level), wait and process each ack/back in order to transmit
the next frame or next A-MPDU/A-MSDU. Also, it is expected that
modulation type change to 64-QAM with 2 streams and in practice that
doesn't happen, it continues at BPSK with 1 spatial stream, probably
at 802.11a because iwinfo reports 6.0 Mbit/s PHY rate.
Finally, thanks for your suggestion about flags on code.
BR,
Mário Lopes.
Quoting wim torfs <wtorfs@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 02/20/2015 11:11 AM, Mário Lopes wrote:
Quoting wim torfs <wtorfs@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 02/19/2015 03:53 PM, Mário Lopes wrote:
Hi everyone.
When using frame injection over monitor interface, with handmade packet
with Radiotap header + QoS + Data, at sender I capture the packet with
tcpdump and it is equal to the one I sent.
Although, at receiver station, the packet is diferent, FCS was
recalculated or forced to active and calculated, MCS is not the one I
supplied, sequence number (QoS field) is not the same, amongst other
things.
Also, QoS Ack policy was "No Ack" at sender (QoS Control = 0x0020), a
Ack frame was transmitted to sender and the received packet arrived with
QoS Control = 0x0000.
Mario,
If I'm not mistaken, the mac80211 parses your injected packet,
retrieves relevant information, such as flags from the radiotap
header, removes the radiotap header from your packet and then proceeds
with sending the packet as any normal packet towards the radio interface.
This, however, means that either the mac80211 rate control algorithm
is calls or the ath9k rate control algorithm, depending on your kernel
configuration. The ath9k driver uses this rate control information to
compose the tx descriptor, after which the packet is handed over to
the hardware.
I believe it is also the hardware (transmitter side or receiver side,
that I don't know), which fills in the actual rate used for the
transmission in your packet, since the hardware is capable of
retransmitting your packet with a lower rate when transmissions fail
too much at the highest rate from the rate selection algorithm.
You mentioned that you monitor interface captures the packet as you
have sent it. If I remember correctly, the mac80211 forwards this
packet towards the monitor interface when the tx status of ath9k has
been received, so basically, you receive transmission status
information, along with your originally sent packet. Sequence numbers
should have been adjusted in this packet I think, however, the
transmission rate will be the same as you have specified.
If you would like to send at a specific rate, you would need to use
the relevant iw commands to fix the transmission rate (or hack ath9k
to transmit at a fixed rate).
Before trying Radiotap header approach, I did disable Ack's with iw but
the transmition rate remained at basic rate (6 Mbit/s) despite forcing
higher MCS with iw, so it was useless.
Could be this a bug in the driver, unicast traffic sent with NoAck flag
treated as a broadcast, despite higher bitrate forcing?
Returning to Radiotap, what's the point of injecting a frame with
radiotap header if it isn't going to be used? I didn't try all the
possible combinations, but the ones I tryied, they where changed before
arriving at receiver.
Thanks.
BR,
Mário Lopes.
Mario,
I don't see the relation between the disabling of acks and the rate
selection. I don't have a working setup currently, so I can not test
it, but fixing the rate with iw should work. See whether you did
everything correctly.
I don't have experience with the NoAck flag, so I cannot comment on
that, however, when reflecting the standard and previous work, I
don't see any reason why the driver would stick to basic rates.
Possibly MPDU aggregation is disabled if the NoAck means also no
block acks, but this does not prevent you to use MCS rates. Look,
this is me just thinking out loud, so I might be wrong here.
As regards radiotap, it does have its use. For instance, if you look
into net/mac80211/tx.c and search for ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap,
you will notice that it ensures whether or not the
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT and IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DONTFRAG flags
are set. Also, it allows you to set the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK flag
on a per packet base.
Best regards,
Wim.
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