On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 12:37 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote: > I've just noticed that hostapd + mac80211 + rt2x00 produces way too many > probe responses when setup as multi bssid AP. > > The reason seems to be that mac80211 receives a broadcast probe req and > drops it to the monitor interface for each vif (hence X times). And hostapd > will process each received broadcast probe req on all vifs as well (hence X > times again). Resulting in X*X probe responses instead of just X. > > This can eat up quite some airtime as the probe reponses are sent at 1Mpbs. > > IMO to fix this issue mac80211 should send a broadcast probe req only once > to the monitor interface. However, I don't have a good idea how to do that > right now :) Looks like we broke that then, IEEE80211_RX_CMNTR was intended to do this. johannes -- 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
