On 03/11/2015 02:56 AM, Mário Lopes wrote: > On which 802.11 amendment (a/b/g/n/ac) and driver allows you setting mcast rate for mesh and IBSS interfaces? > Far as I know, some vendors send multicast traffic as unicast in order to reduce airtime. I was just looking at the kernel code, I think it was linux/net/wireless/* where the device type is made. I didn't look farther to figure out what it would take to make this work with stations or APs. Thanks, Ben > > > Quoting Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> From looking at 3.17 code, it appears we are only supposed to set the >> mcast rate for mesh and IBSS interfaces? >> >> What if I want to tell an AP or station to send broadcast/multicast >> at a higher than default rate? >> >> Should this just be controlled by the normal 'iw setbitrates' logic? >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> >> -- >> Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
