On Sunday 21 March 2010 05:40:05 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 21:02 +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote: > > >> setup 2 wireless cards, talking to each other (i use IBSS) on > > >> different > > > > >> machines. then setup routing like this: > > PC1<--ethernet cable-->Device1<--wireless link-->Device2<--ethernet > > cable-->PC2 > > I'm not really sure how this scenario differs from injecting traffic > locally, but I'll try to reproduce. if you generate traffic locally it's enough to stop the queues, this will cause userspace to stop generating traffic. in the forwarding case (which we are talking about) stopping the queues will not stop the sender to send traffic, thus we have to start dropping packets at some point. bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
