From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Apr 15 8:27:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E959137B440 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@monzoon.net) Received: (qmail 90263 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2001 15:27:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monzoon.net) ([195.134.148.7]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Apr 2001 15:27:30 -0000 Message-ID: <3AD9BDD1.E5329F3E@monzoon.net> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:27:13 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: Duncan Barclay , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of if_ef for 802.11 interfaces? References: <3AD6CD6E.104C6DD9@monzoon.net> <20010413102444.C664@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > A couple of practical points arise for outgoing packets revolving > > > around the type of 802.11 network in use (infrastructure or adhoc) > > > that would involve if_ef knowing what mode the interface is in and the > > > BSSID. We have some common support for this in the form of the recent > > > (uncommitted) patches to ifconfig PR25577. > > > > Wireless support in ifconfig would be really a good thing IMHO. But > > this brings the need of a well thought out interface between ifconfig > > and the wireless card drivers. > > What, if anything, is wrong with the interface proposed in PR 25577? Nothing, maybe except that there is no IOCTL defined for "microwave oven rubustness" (which is another way to say "don't fallback too fast on transmission errors"). :-) -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message