Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:52173 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946100AbXBPWMR (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:12:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] d80211: Add software sequence support From: Johannes Berg To: Ivo van Doorn Cc: Jiri Benc , Michael Wu , John Linville , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200702162307.16826.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <200702141423.27823.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20070216135827.7d262ae3@griffin.suse.cz> <1171660484.3575.34.camel@johannes.berg> <200702162307.16826.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GC+pk7KacA7yTW1UiqbZ" Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:12:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1171663926.3575.42.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-GC+pk7KacA7yTW1UiqbZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 23:07 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > On Friday 16 February 2007 22:14, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:58 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: > >=20 > > > Both. > > >=20 > > > When you have a WDS link and some other wireless interface at the sam= e > > > time, their source addresses are (in most cases) the same. You want t= o > > > have the sequence control counter shared by them. Actually, it will > > > probably work most of time even when they have different counters. Th= e > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > Any ideas how to solve that? > >=20 > > Make the counter per-mac address? >=20 > Wouldn't that be the same as per-interface? Don't WDS interfaces have the same MAC as the corresponding AP interface? johannes --=-GC+pk7KacA7yTW1UiqbZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF1iw2/ETPhpq3jKURAsx7AJ94Q7dAvFIPyX9bWPaCkflDcMuwQwCeP71w +tLjsFs+WwK2s5wa6SbhOxc= =H9m1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GC+pk7KacA7yTW1UiqbZ--