From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scanning and channel types.
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:42:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4EF99D.5020601@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4EF004.3040109@candelatech.com>
On 2011-02-06 8:01 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> Current code always sets the channel type to NO_HT when scanning.
>
> From what I can tell, we should be able to send NO_HT packets on
> any channel type, and for passive scanning, it should not matter
> at all what channel-type we are using.
>
> I tested relaxing scanning to use the current channel type
> when scanning on the operating channel, and it seems to
> work.
>
> Does anyone see any problems with this approach?
One thing you should make sure is that once you're done associating to
an NO_HT or HT20 AP (and you have no other interfaces to consider), the
channel mode must not be HT40 - otherwise it could reduce throughput.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-06 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-06 19:01 Scanning and channel types Ben Greear
2011-02-06 19:42 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2011-02-06 19:54 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-06 19:59 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-02-06 20:07 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-06 20:23 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-02-06 21:07 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-06 21:09 ` Felix Fietkau
2011-02-07 5:42 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-02-07 18:03 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-07 18:32 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-02-07 20:04 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-07 20:10 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-02-07 21:01 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-07 21:02 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-07 23:53 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-02-08 0:38 ` Ben Greear
2011-02-09 13:22 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-07 18:23 ` Ben Greear
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