On 2011-06-01 2:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:41 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
On 2011-06-01 1:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:18 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>
>> >> >> >> > I don't understand how you can rely on beacons for WDS.
>
>> Oh, right. I'll send a follow-up patch that forces a WDS to also have an
>> active AP interface before it's brought up.
>
> Hm, that might be sufficient, but what if the peer isn't sending
> beacons?
>
> Can't we add a station entry and then update it if we receive
> information from the peer? That'd be more compatible with others devices
> that don't necessarily have beacons with WDS, and then we wouldn't have
> to require it locally either (since realistically we might have to
> interoperate with those anyway?)
What other devices use WDS without beacons? So far I haven't seen any.
I don't know, at least older mac80211 could do that?
In older mac80211 (at least the versions that I tested), WDS was
completely broken. It also created the station entry without any valid
rates, and it had no means of updating the supported rates list.
- Felix
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