Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:51545 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753837Ab1AKPpm (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:45:42 -0500 To: Helmut Schaa Cc: Jason Andryuk , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ivo Van Doorn , Gertjan van Wingerde , Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Re: 5GHz 802.11n USB Adapter References: <201101101703.45802.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> <87ipxvfqg1.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <201101111557.46845.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:45:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <201101111557.46845.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> (Helmut Schaa's message of "Tue\, 11 Jan 2011 15\:57\:46 +0100") Message-ID: <87ei8jfnq2.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Helmut Schaa writes: > Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2011 schrieb Kalle Valo: >> Helmut Schaa writes: >> >> Ok, thanks. I'll try to come up with a patch which disables AP mode >> for rt2800usb. > > 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. During the years I have suffered so much from broken power save implementations in different access points. I really do not want us to do the same mistake. -- Kalle Valo