Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:19:43 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@gmail.com>
Cc:        kevlo@freebsd.org, sam@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_ral regression
Message-ID:  <864pds8idc.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <ea7b9c170801040620l1e1c27a1t30a875b32dc0f01c@mail.gmail.com> (Sepherosa Ziehau's message of "Fri\, 4 Jan 2008 22\:20\:48 %2B0800")
References:  <86ir2hznnd.fsf@ds4.des.no> <ea7b9c170712312227m7a961c95kc2bed20f94d09593@mail.gmail.com> <86abnpu0wv.fsf@ds4.des.no> <ea7b9c170801020518m6d5f8fdejd01947166669e9e4@mail.gmail.com> <86abnovy4k.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86odc3dlgi.fsf@ds4.des.no> <ea7b9c170801031824n2205c1e8i2f010df67a07dfff@mail.gmail.com> <86lk76c6t5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <ea7b9c170801040620l1e1c27a1t30a875b32dc0f01c@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@gmail.com> writes:
> This actually brings up two things:
> 1) I think we should ignore seq in multicast frames; this is permitted in
> 802.11 standard.  In dfly I did that, since one of our users
> encountered a broken commercial AP which is not 802.11e but uses
> different seq for data and beacon.
> 2) TX sequence.  I think standards only mention QSTA/nQSTA, but not
> AP.  Currently our AP uses per node TX seq, which means beacon's seq
> is difficult to choose, at least for 2560 based ral(4), whose beacons'
> seq need to be set by software.  I saw Linksys AP uses one seq for all
> of the frames it sends.  Sam, what's you opinion on this?
>
> I think if STA counts ral(4)'s beacon seq, as what we do currently,
> beacon missing will quickly happen since beacons will be discarded
> after first several data frames.

OK, I *think* I understood most of that.  Does this suggest a solution
to you?  I will try to get the wlandebug output tonight.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?864pds8idc.fsf>