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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:20:30 +0800
From:      "Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@gmail.com>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB wireless AP?
Message-ID:  <ea7b9c170804230120q6633a611t6d9f16f59df38341@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fulh60$l5q$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fulfqf$grf$1@ger.gmane.org> <480E4681.5030608@acm.poly.edu> <fulh60$l5q$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Boris Kochergin wrote:
>
> > Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards listed
> there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a discouraging comment
> about using them for access points in the man page, though:
> >
> > CAVEATS
> >    The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the transmit
> >    speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes.

In HOSTAP mode, you can have one roaming STA, or you can have several
STAs if they stay in almost same TX/RX condition.  This limitation is
primarily due to ural (same applies to rum) hardware does not have
per-packet (or at least per-peer) TX try/fail counters.  This can't be
fixd by driver.

Best Regards,
sephe

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