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Re: mac80211 noob question

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On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 21:18 +1100, VN wrote:
> Hi list,
> I've recently started hacking mac80211/ath5k in order to implement my
> idea of cooperative relaying. I had a good look at the mac80211 code
> and couldn't find anything that deals with ACKing... or is it done in
> firmware and some flag is set to indicate that the frame has been
> acknowledged? What I'm trying to achieve right now is to receive a
> data frame while in monitor mode (e.g. ieee80211_rx_start_monitor())
> and then check if it has been acknowledged by the destination node.
> would be very grateful for any tips!

I think you're confused? If you receive a frame, your own hardware will
have sent the ACK. If you TX a frame, you will see it on the monitor
iface with the radiotap ack flag set or clear, see hostapd for example
code.

johannes

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