Re: mesh beaconing questions

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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> > 2. The Draft states to use either procedures 11.1.2.2 (IBSS) or 11.1.2.1
> > (infrastructure). It is easy to "port" 11.1.2.1 to mesh, but 11.1.2.2
> > reads like this:
> 
> Next question, more relevant to how this affects the user:
> 
> What's the meaningful difference between these two choices?  When would
> you use one and when would you use the other?  Should the user (ie, a
> user of something like NetworkManager) care whether a particular node is
> doing IBSS or infrastructure beacons?

Good point. I guess the relevance is that the IBSS mode requires less
power because you don't have to transmit every beacon? There's a *lot*
of text in the Draft about beaconing/synchronization and not having
TBTTs at the same time between different STAs and whatever though so
maybe there's more to it.

johannes

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