On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:26 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. Uh, I suppose we both meant FIF_OTHER_BSS. I did, at least. johannes
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