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

[Lito <s0972763@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Felix Fietkau <nbd <at> openwrt.org> writes:

> 
> 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 :)

I am interested in disabling all rate adaptation algorithms in ath9k. how could 
I do that?
thnx a lot in advance,
Lito

> 
> > 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
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