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Re: [PATCH 3/8] mac80211: Simulate transmission losses on plinks to aid in testing mesh metrics.

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On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 11:09 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Javier Cardona <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This enables us to specify a simulated loss probability per mesh peer link.
> > Useful to simulate and test different mesh topologies and test different mesh
> > metrics.
> >
> > The simulated loss rate setting can be configured as a plink action.  The
> > intended use is:
> >
> > iw dev mesh station set <MAC> plink_action loss 25
> 
> I really would not like to see debug functionality in nl80211 just to
> simplify the maintenance. Debugging belongs to debugfs or somewhere
> else.

I agree, and I also don't think it belongs into mac80211. I think this
is a good case for actually finally writing the userspace frame
forwarding for hwsim, so you can simulate _anything_ with simple
userspace programs.

johannes

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