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From: etienne.champetier@free.fr
To: Henning Rogge <hrogge@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 802.11s mode without HWMP
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 21:38:28 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546412005.18351359.1400528308190.JavaMail.root@zimbra65-e11.priv.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGnRvuq9pP3f+KiZAZ6Rpz-NKPqW9tnPRX4MmGZ6PK9PT3U_xA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Henning Rogge" <hrogge@gmail.com>
> À: "Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Envoyé: Lundi 19 Mai 2014 16:14:36
> Objet: Re: 802.11s mode without HWMP
> 
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:00:53AM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote:
> >> Is there an easy way to stop HWMP in the 802.11s implementation?
> >

> I have an IP router connected via ethernet to a radio with a single
> wifi card, using the wifi card as a bridged radio. Its a great way to
> build routers with lots of Wifi links because you can mount the
> wifi-cards itself on the antenna and keep the router in a central
> place.
> 
> I don't want to use layer-2 forwarding in the mesh because this
> increases the broad-/multicast domain size and spams the available
> frequencies even more.

> 
> I want to force 802.11s only to connect to other stations one layer-2
> hop away. So no forwarding by intermediate stations.
> 
> Henning Rogge
> --

I'm curious, what are you using for your L3 mesh/can you give details on the network?

Thanks in advance
Etienne

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19  9:00 802.11s mode without HWMP Henning Rogge
2014-05-19 13:18 ` Bob Copeland
2014-05-19 14:14   ` Henning Rogge
2014-05-19 14:29     ` Bob Copeland
2014-05-19 14:45       ` Henning Rogge
2014-05-19 19:38     ` etienne.champetier [this message]
2014-05-20  6:06       ` Henning Rogge
2014-05-20 12:32         ` Henning Rogge
2014-05-20 17:36           ` Thomas Pedersen
2014-05-20 17:41             ` Henning Rogge
2014-05-21  6:51             ` Henning Rogge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-21  1:22 Yeoh Chun-Yeow

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