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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:41:31 +0200
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: create a STA entry for a WDS interface
 after receiving a beacon
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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.

- Felix