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On 07/07/2009 07:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, John W. Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:10:52PM +1000, David Ross wrote:
>>> Actually it is required to be a mutual BASIC rate (not extended rates) -
>>> not necessarily the "lowest possible" - David.
>> True, but FWIW I think all of our rate scaling algorithms choose the
>> lowest rate.
>
> And then iwlwifi and ath9k have their own rate control algo, and at
> least ath9k uses the lowest valid rate IIRC.
>
>    Luis


   I've found the code in ath9k and you are right, it always chooses the 
lowest rate.
   So, basically to transmit multicast frames at a better bitrate I have 
to hack the rate control algorithm, right?


Thanks,
Valentin