Re: [PATCH v2] d80211: Add software sequence support

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] d80211: Add software sequence support
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:14:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171660484.3575.34.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070216135827.7d262ae3@griffin.suse.cz>

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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:58 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:

> Both.
> 
> When you have a WDS link and some other wireless interface at the same
> time, their source addresses are (in most cases) the same. You want to
> have the sequence control counter shared by them. Actually, it will
> probably work most of time even when they have different counters. The
> situation where it won't work is if you have two virtual interfaces,
> one in STA and second in WDS mode, both connected to the same AP. I
> can't figure out how this particular setup could be useful but it's
> generally not disallowed.
> 
> Anyway, using different counter for a WDS interface probably violates
> 802.11 (although it's not much specific in this case). I believe it
> will work in most cases, though.
> 
> Any ideas how to solve that?

Make the counter per-mac address?

johannes

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