Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:49379 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755647AbYDINmg (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:42:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: do not alter injected seq numbers From: Johannes Berg To: Michael Buesch Cc: Alejandro Grijalba , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com In-Reply-To: <200804081025.39645.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080408_092609_909502_698A80A4) References: <47FAB829.9010304@latinsud.com> <200804081025.39645.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080408_092609_909502_698A80A4) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VnkK0pVA9IJC1y4A7T17" Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:37 +0200 Message-Id: <1207728037.7442.7.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080409_144240_410977_558E1405) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-VnkK0pVA9IJC1y4A7T17 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > This does not work, since we use injection for other types of frames. For= example > management frames from hostapd. We don't want (and can't) make hostapd ke= ep track of > sequence numbers. > You'll have to contact radiotap people and add a flag for this. This woul= d also > solve the hardware counter problem then. If hardware is capable of not overriding sequence numbers. I expect much hardware to just always insert them. Wasn't the original goal to control fragmentation rather than sequence numbers? That could possibly be done with fewer problems. johannes --=-VnkK0pVA9IJC1y4A7T17 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIVAwUAR/x3pKVg1VMiehFYAQLAng/9GhWI6doqjy7ArVyubi0uP87ywdcH5PpD ibU2nS2XnwSdizjthmBYdiTaJ2SscwO0ReZVuRoWVafjAu0wsqjsN5zDlAi3i9qC 7Ra6ZnP4IVEdEsriEOSqHeb3rtQKLQ5bJItV3WYlInH/axkgQs30KeNvc8RzUrEH s1I6QfFEK007eItNuo+4+t0N+Ec7NzbbWMEYdXcfY55GPnuH9bWIyeAubx8fnUgL dYHeLZ7sJRtJeWMb62QhHUapDvz9O3FvH3IZdBo/lLD72eqwy16fqA7Px+DMp8GT staZasbUvYWtnbvgXXG0VaFGn4uI84SDv1EzuN0FFkwl5rkwPl0+sp4WC6dEbH7n ue6bfvW1DLeKj0kUtvMQ9wVexhoKZlol4qIKjdpz/7Dch2xdK/+MpkzCwYAuSenV KS1FJaKHk4KB7P8/yLfYtKz+w9B3cuYxv2rNcV6V1VoAvbI/apAotZoCR/fbtlD/ fdDpKr4r4RhyqAHrYHMRCP/r2cRE4bNC5nycgP0YCbVvLUl3HAxcJgowU5ZnQLFg VLPBmfg4VrOd9rbx0wHn9yXm6N5ZnSSbDo86H8vO4ecxihHuXBLNPNPOsPHEA/F+ U9RtR6TewfXOxfmYGQN6ZiQcOWEZ4h9KHI566C/Gt1vO4IhHr4oZ79+zzcnAetTg I5Cf5LlHOAU= =crdz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VnkK0pVA9IJC1y4A7T17--