On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:56:46PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > I wonder if this should be split, implementing a "real" MAC for hwsim, > and then sending also the ACKs "properly", perhaps implementing RTS/CTS > behaviour in the MAC, etc.? The reason I did it this way was to go more for rough approximation rather than fidelity to get whatever simplifications that allows. For example, loop really only considers a single frame at a time (and all of its rateset) rather than all the possible stations that could be sending at a given time step. That is good enough for comparing rate controllers, and doing some mesh testing with a few one-off hacks bolted on top, but nowhere near complete. That said, splitting them apart and having more realistic mac layer sounds reasonable -- how do you anticipate it looking? > Or perhaps then that's too much complexity and I should just teach ns3 > the hwsim virtio interface? Up to you :) -- Bob Copeland %% https://bobcopeland.com/
