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On Dec 20, 2007 5:15 AM, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 02:08 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > I've made a mistake this is not logical but actual rate so it
> > theoretically we can go up to 600Mbs so it will make it 120 < 256.
>
> Um, should it be 1200 > 255?

Hmm I'm too long out of elementary school :)

> > But aren't we interested in MSC rate a packet was sent?
>
> NetBSD and wireshark support IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_XCHANNEL which does a
> better job to extend the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_CHANNEL functions including
> per-channel power dbm, MCS rates, etc. Linux should catch up when we
> have 11n fully supported.
>
> Thanks,
> -yi
>
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>