Re: o11s: Modularize Path Selection Protocol etc.

[Florian Sesser <flomaillist@cosetrain.com>]

Hi Rui!

Thanks for your prompt reply. I will dig into the new draft ASAP.

(It is propably rude to ask for an up to date draft on this list? I
would, of course, discreetly profit from having it handy shortly...)

Greetings!

Florian

Me:
>> [...]
>> In my last patch [2], I introduced some new 32 bit struct
>> members, because, if I am not mistaken, these IDs should include a
>> vendor specific OUI, which enables a user to combine a path
>> selection protocol of vendor A with a path selection metric of
>> vendor B.

Rui:
> This has changed quite a bit on the latest 802.11s draft standards.
> If you want to use your own routing protocol and to be 802.11s
> compliant, you need to set the path selection protocol ID to 255 and
> append a vendor specific information element to the management frame.
> [...]
> Rui Paulo