From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 10:59:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D30106564A for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from monthadar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11818FC0C for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so1177640gxk.13 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:59:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Bsv3Rks1GTMEvDJcKQJSHsQ5NNyNk7YDbtV1gTOC7vQ=; b=wT8B4fQI1RbEP6p1+Qj+47xvWR2gwmxEF2f5ttscSuB9fH7J99W5Vl9D5DsQdpcakT 2Akb3bydHB5YAgF5EYRKkRYj0MnGi2/COd14iCV+TFfWn5DVtZFo2+aSeZU5Ao26PZ8r wiCZ7FRohe23z1m8eCfk4fxzzTn/DpW6Fp8VU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.166.19 with SMTP id o19mr1092000ybe.191.1311764347565; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.101.4 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:59:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:59:07 +0200 Message-ID: From: Monthadar Al Jaberi To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Ack, Net80211 & ath X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:59:09 -0000 Ok. For mesh forwarding information, how do I know about link failure (not able to forward an MSDU/MMPDU). Cause then we need to generate a PERR frame. br, On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Yup, you're right. net80211 doesn't get notification of it by default. > > What do you need it for? > > > Adrian > > On 27 July 2011 18:23, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How is ack frames being handled by the net80211? I guess the driver >> (or maybe hardware) takes care of resending, but what happens if it >> max number of retries is reached? How is net8011 notified? >> >> There is ieee80211_add_callback that I think should be used for that, >> but it is only used by managment frames of type >> IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_ASSOC_REQ, IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_REASSOC_REQ and >> IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_AUTH (in station mode) and one for HT code. >> >> What about the others? I guess the hardware only keeps stat counters >> for failures.... >> >> br, >> >> -- >> //Monthadar Al Jaberi >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > -- //Monthadar Al Jaberi -- //Monthadar Al Jaberi