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Re: RFC: Remote Off-Channel CAC for DFS

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Hi,

On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 19:40 +0200, Markus Theil wrote:
> When using DFS channels, it would be nice, if I could dedicate a small
> amount of interfaces only to CAC checking channels and set them
> available or unavailable on multiple other remote APs/Mesh Points in
> order to use them, when switching to lower utilized channels without
> going through a full CAC.
> 
> Whats the opinion on the mailing list about adding a new command to
> nl80211 in order to set the DFS state of a currently not used channel
> after a Off-Channel CAC on another device nearby, but not on the same
> host? The parameters would roughly be the same as for a channel switch
> and an additional DFS channel state. Internally, I would trigger the DFS
> state sync code between multiple interfaces.

But wait, don't we already sync this within the kernel?

johannes




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