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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:39:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: 5GHz 802.11n USB Adapter
From: Ivo Van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
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	Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>,
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	Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>,
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Hi,

>> Fine with me but AFAIK there are quite some users out there that use
>> rt2800usb in AP mode.
>
> Yeah, but they are using a broken implementation and will have random
> problems because of missing broadcast and multicast packets, for
> example ARP is a likely problem area. We discussed about this last
> year, I think.
>
>> In the end Ivo or Gertjan should have a chance to comment ;)
>
> Naturally :)
>
>> And furthermore Johannes Stezenbach is interested in getting rt2800usb
>> to do the mc- and bc buffering correctly. Not sure if he already had a chance
>> to investigate more.
>
> That would be the best option, but in the mean time we should disable
> AP mode.

Ok, but please don't restrict only to rt2800usb then. Basically _all_ rt2x00 USB
drivers are not functioning. Also I assume it means that also Mesh
mode, Secondary,
and Ad-hoc should also be disabled?

Ivo