On 6/13/2018 5:10 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
Tamizh Chelvam Raja <tamizhr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
This patchsets introduced new NL command and api to support
configuring txrate threshold for the connected stations and api to
notify userspace application upon crossing the configured txrate threshold.
This will be useful for the application which requires station's
current capability change information.
What is the intended use case? Asking mostly out of curiosity :)
[Tamizh] This is to monitor txrate change for a station. By notifying
userspace when the txrate for a station goes out of configured
threshold, It can take steering decisions on the particular station.
Yeah, I got that part. I was curious as to what (userspace) application
you were planning to use this for? I.e., what kind of steering
decisions? :)
It sounds like network initiated handover as opposed to station roaming.
Suspect the user-space application referred to here is a proprietary
application. At plumbers conf I attended a couple of years ago there was
an idea to have a network management application controlling multiple
hostapd instances for this type of functionality, but not sure if that
project ever got of the ground.
Regards,
Arend
