On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 21:39 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2011-05-31 9:32 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 21:16 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > >> When a STA entry is created too early, a lot of essential information > >> required for rate control is missing. > > > > I don't understand how you can rely on beacons for WDS. > You usually set up WDS links between APs on the same channel, each > running both a normal AP vif and a WDS vif. The remote AP's beacons are > then used to detect the capabilities of the peer. I don't think we can rely on "usually" unless we also enforce that somehow. Otherwise this link will basically be dead. There's nothing that requires you to add WDS to an AP interface only after all. 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
