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Re: [RFC] API for setting ACK timeout

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On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 00:39 -0800, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Felix Fietkau wrote:
> > At some point, I will try to come up with an implementation for 
> > ath9k which doesn't involve such voodoo, but instead compares 
> > the tx timestamp of some data packets against the rx timestamp 
> > of ack packets. 
> 
> Would this mean, that we could get per station ACK timeouts?
> If so, this would be very useful in an IBSS network. In such an
> environment one might talk to nodes whose distance to the sender
> vary over a broad range. 

Not likely that _any_ hardware supports that, it'd have to modify the
timers all the time. I suppose some firmware _could_ support it, but
it's a huge complexity for extremely little gain. In any case, setting
it to the max would be sufficient for this case, give it a thought :)

johannes

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