Subject: Re: Testing AP mode with WLAN-USB-Stick: How to obtain?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:51:24 +0200
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On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 17:49 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Now, it may or may not be possible to work around this in software by
> sending out the multicast frames on a high-priority queue right after
> the beacon, or something like that, but frankly I'm not interested in
> working on zd1211rw myself, so that will have to be somebody who is (a)
> familiar with 802.11 powersaving and multicast buffering, (b) wants
> zd1211rw to work, and finally (c) has a lot of time to play with the
> device.

And also, until the work has been done to determine whether an
acceptable solution in software is possible, I do not want to see any of
the upper-layer work to support this "BROKEN_AP" mode you've been
advocating. IOW, I think we should look into adding that only after we
have determined for sure that we actually need it.

johannes

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