Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:32876 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750850AbXBPWHv (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:07:51 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1667765nfa for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:07:50 -0800 (PST) To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] d80211: Add software sequence support Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:07:16 +0100 Cc: Jiri Benc , Michael Wu , John Linville , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200702141423.27823.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20070216135827.7d262ae3@griffin.suse.cz> <1171660484.3575.34.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1171660484.3575.34.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200702162307.16826.IvDoorn@gmail.com> From: Ivo van Doorn Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 16 February 2007 22:14, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? Wouldn't that be the same as per-interface? Ivo