On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:34 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > >> > For rt2x00 this would turn into: > >> > FIF_ALLMULTI | FIF_OTHER_BSS | FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS > >> > >> With the above configuration, will the rt2x00 device acknowledge 1) > >> unicast frames addressed to itself? 2) unicast frames addressed to > >> others? 3) none of the above? > > > > It should always only be (1), mac80211 might set OTHER_BSS if it (well, > > the user) wants to see traffic on the same channel from other BSSes. > > Good. My concern was that FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS would disable all > acknowledgments. (I've seen some wireless hw with that behavior) Just for the record, (1) is the behaviour mac80211 needs, and hardware that behaves as the one you've seen wouldn't support FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS at all, and consequently not mesh either, I suppose. I'll add a note to the API page. johannes
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