Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: create a STA entry for a WDS interface
 after receiving a beacon
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:26:27 +0200
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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:41 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2011-06-01 1:30 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:18 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >
> >>  >>   >>    >>     >     I don't understand how you can rely on beacons for WDS.
> >
> >>  Oh, right. I'll send a follow-up patch that forces a WDS to also have an
> >>  active AP interface before it's brought up.
> >
> > Hm, that might be sufficient, but what if the peer isn't sending
> > beacons?
> >
> > Can't we add a station entry and then update it if we receive
> > information from the peer? That'd be more compatible with others devices
> > that don't necessarily have beacons with WDS, and then we wouldn't have
> > to require it locally either (since realistically we might have to
> > interoperate with those anyway?)
> What other devices use WDS without beacons? So far I haven't seen any.

I don't know, at least older mac80211 could do that?

johannes