From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Hin-Tak Leung" <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
"Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Steuerwald" <salsasepp@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing AP mode with WLAN-USB-Stick: How to obtain?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:31:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610113158.GA2798@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244619027.18481.55.camel@johannes.local>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:30:27AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This means that your sleeping clients will not be receiving multicast,
> and as such be invisible to the network once they fall off the ARP/NDP
> caches. This is the reason we have said that it will not be possible to
> support AP mode with this card. I'm curious how, if at all, the vendor
> driver handles that.
My completely uninformed guess is that they ignore it. I will hazard
a guess that most scenarios involving "laptop as AP" are for support
of devices that don't (or at least didn't) do a lot of sleeping,
like other laptops.
I'm still a bit "on the fence" regarding this requirement for AP mode.
I think there is a reasonable body of users that would prefer a
not-quite-right AP mode over no AP mode at all.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-06-08 17:11 ` Testing AP mode with WLAN-USB-Stick: How to obtain? Stefan Steuerwald
2009-06-08 20:19 ` Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen
2009-06-08 23:59 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-09 11:26 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-10 3:18 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-10 7:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-10 11:31 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-06-10 19:19 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-10 19:28 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-06-10 19:36 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-10 19:40 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-10 19:58 ` John W. Linville
2009-06-10 19:55 ` John W. Linville
2009-06-10 13:39 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-10 15:22 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-10 15:49 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-10 15:51 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-10 19:28 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-11 3:08 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-11 3:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-11 9:59 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-11 14:42 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-09 8:19 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-06-09 9:16 ` Alexandre Becholey - s h o c k f i s h /
2009-06-11 14:58 Joerg Pommnitz
2009-06-11 15:06 ` Gábor Stefanik
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