From: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mac80211: Open bug in current wireless-testing
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:07:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49108.64808.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264699110.9434.2.camel@jm-laptop>
--- Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> wrote:
>
> You can control the multicast/broadcast rates with basic
> rate set
> configuration (in hostapd.conf). I think the current rate
> control
> algorithms do not support dynamic rate selection for
> multicast/broadcast, so they will end up picking the lowest
> rate from
> the basic rate set. Anyway, if you include only a single
> rate in the
> basic rate set, that rate will be used for
> multicast/broadcast frames.
>
> - Jouni
This does not help me. I'm in an IBSS network.
And no, how would a RC algorithm dynamically select a broadcast rate.
Broadcast frames are not acknowledged, so there is no feedback that could
be used to optimize throughput.
Regards
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-27 14:17 mac80211: Open bug in current wireless-testing Joerg Pommnitz
2010-01-27 14:44 ` [PATCH] cfg80211: fix wext-compat for setting rate to 'auto' John W. Linville
2010-01-27 18:12 ` mac80211: Open bug in current wireless-testing Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-01-28 8:21 ` Joerg Pommnitz
2010-01-28 17:18 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-01-29 8:07 ` Joerg Pommnitz [this message]
2010-01-28 14:00 ` Kalle Valo
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