Re: Why can we not set the mcast rate for AP/STA interfaces?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 03/11/2015 02:56 AM, Mário Lopes wrote:
> On which 802.11 amendment (a/b/g/n/ac) and driver allows you setting mcast rate for mesh and IBSS interfaces?
> Far as I know, some vendors send multicast traffic as unicast in order to reduce airtime.

I was just looking at the kernel code, I think it was linux/net/wireless/* where
the device type is made.  I didn't look farther to figure out what it would take
to make this work with stations or APs.

Thanks,
Ben

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> Quoting Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>:
> 
>>> From looking at 3.17 code, it appears we are only supposed to set the
>> mcast rate for mesh and IBSS interfaces?
>>
>> What if I want to tell an AP or station to send broadcast/multicast
>> at a higher than default rate?
>>
>> Should this just be controlled by the normal 'iw setbitrates' logic?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
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