Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

Johannes Berg
2009-11-16T18:07:04Z

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On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 09:57 -0800, Adam Wozniak wrote:
> This assumption seems too stoichastic. Reading 802.11-2007 section
> 11.1.2.2, it doesn't seem that we're guaranteed to always receive
> beacons from all stations. Stations will cancel their pending beacon
> transmission if they receive a beacon before their random delay times
> out. In the extreme case where the number of stations is very large, it
> seems possible that you may never hear beacons for some stations.

That is indeed possible, shouldn't happen in the scenario you were
outlining (three stations) though. It's more likely that one of them
doesn't implement beaconing correctly.

It would make sense either way though to send probe requests and
reacting to them and probe responses, if you want to implement that.

johannes

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