From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:57561 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751664AbZHHIJM (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 04:09:12 -0400 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so1817083bwz.37 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:09:11 -0700 (PDT) To: Javier Cardona Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Yurovsky , johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com, devel@lists.open80211s.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] mac80211: Simulate transmission losses on plinks to aid in testing mesh metrics. References: <1249702711-32737-1-git-send-email-javier@cozybit.com> <1249702711-32737-2-git-send-email-javier@cozybit.com> <1249702711-32737-3-git-send-email-javier@cozybit.com> <1249702711-32737-4-git-send-email-javier@cozybit.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:09:09 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1249702711-32737-4-git-send-email-javier@cozybit.com> (Javier Cardona's message of "Fri\, 7 Aug 2009 20\:38\:26 -0700") Message-ID: <87d476n2vu.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Javier Cardona writes: > This enables us to specify a simulated loss probability per mesh peer link. > Useful to simulate and test different mesh topologies and test different mesh > metrics. > > The simulated loss rate setting can be configured as a plink action. The > intended use is: > > iw dev mesh station set plink_action loss 25 I really would not like to see debug functionality in nl80211 just to simplify the maintenance. Debugging belongs to debugfs or somewhere else. Disclaimer: I know nothing about mesh and I may have misunderstood something. -- Kalle Valo