[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel: mac80211 Rate Control

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2010-09-21 10:37 AM, "Lorna Gonz?lez" wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have some questions regarding mac80211 rate control:
> 
> 1. Is minstrel the default rate control algorithm? 
minstrel_ht is for 802.11n, for legacy it falls back to minstrel.
ath9k still uses its own rate control by default though - but I sent a
patch that allows you to turn that off :)

> 2. If I built two interfaces on the mac80211 layer and I connect one interface i.e. wlan0 to an ieee802.11g AP and the second one i.e. wlan1 to a iee802.11n AP. Will the rate control work independent for each network or
> it would take for both networks the rate control of the iee802.11g/n? Has someone made a similar test?
> 3. Does rate control also aply for virtual wiphys? or since the mac80211 does not know about multiple radios there is not rate control implemented?
No need to test for this specifically, since rate control works on each
individual peer anyway, so it doesn't matter whether there's one virtual
interface or any other number.

- Felix