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On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:05 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
> Johannes Berg schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:47 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> is it just me or is 'iw dev <devname> station del <MAC address>' broken?
> >>     
> >
> > No ... we decided a while ago that station manipulation in mesh was too
> > hard to support and removed it.
> >
> > What's the use case anyway?
> >
> > johannes
> >   
> The use case is that, if I have some mesh points in a single room or one 
> a small floor, I can simply give them a topology by removing the links 
> between the STA, I do not wish to be directly connected.
> Removing the links means 'iw dev <devname> set mesh_param 
> mesh_auto_open_plinks 0', which blocks building up new peering links, 
> and then removing some links with 'station del'.

Can't you just do that before it gets discovered?

I'm not really happy with the mesh API anyway ...

johannes

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