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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Cc: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	devel@lists.open80211s.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: allow adding/deleting stations on mesh
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:59:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245182353.21287.58.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445f43ac0906161251v63d59cc1jd72bade62910d086@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:51 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:

> > No, I don't have any in mind. I wasn't aware that only the mesh_id
> > defines the mesh, I was under the impression that more needs to match,
> > as codified in mesh_matches_local().
> 
> In addition to the mesh id, a successful peering requires that peer
> candidates use the same methods for path selection, congestion
> control, synchronization and authentication.  None of these are
> configurable via iw (essentially because only one single option for
> each method is implemented).

Ahh! Ok, goes to show how little I understand the mesh code. IIRC
somebody had a patch to make those configurable though. I guess as long
as those need to be configured while creating the interface the API is
actually very good and much better than I thought :)

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 18:31 [PATCH] cfg80211: allow adding/deleting stations on mesh Andrey Yurovsky
2009-06-16 18:35 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-16 18:42   ` Andrey Yurovsky
2009-06-16 18:45     ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-16 18:55       ` Andrey Yurovsky
2009-06-16 18:56         ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-16 19:32           ` Javier Cardona
2009-06-16 19:37             ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-16 19:51               ` Javier Cardona
2009-06-16 19:59                 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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