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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Janusz Dziedzic
<janusz.dziedzic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6 March 2015 at 09:04, Henning Rogge <hrogge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> First, we cannot open a Mesh interface on a DFS channel unless we open
>> an AP interface first (and closing the AP interface before activating
>> the mesh). Are we missing some special initialization?
>>
> I think this works beacause we didn't integrate patch:
> [PATCH v5] cfg80211: fix dfs channel state after stopping AP
> and discussion here:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/117095
>
> Anyway I think this is a BUG while for example:
> 1) we can run AP (CAC) on chanel 36
> 2) next shut down AP
> 3) wait few days with loaded cfg80211 and in the same time for example
> move to other location (AP in bus/train)
> 4) we don't need run CAC again - for me this is a cfg80211 bug :)

Yes, this sounds like a bug... when wpa_supplicant "disconnects" from
the mac80211 stack the flag should revert to "dfs not available". But
I am not sure if you can easily detect that wpa_supplicant is not
there anymore.

> Anyway, before you can beaconing you should perform CAC, so this
> should be added to wpa_supplicant - currently this is not implemented.

Has the "802.11s support" ever been merged to wpa_supplicant?

At the moment we are using neither wpa_supplicant nor hostapd... when
we use encryption, we use the authsae tool from the open802.11s page.

>> Second, we are seeing a huge amount of radar events on some nodes, but
>> not on a node on the same channel in the next room. What is the status
>> of the DFS detector in ath9k, is it reliable or is it still
>> "experimental".
>>
> We tested/using ath10k hw, so I don't know ath9k status :)

Thank you for the information.

Henning Rogge
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