Re: [PATCH wpan-tools 0/3] mac: info: interface: add basic support

[Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:06:06AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch series add support for setting lbt mode and dump phy parameters and
> mac interface parameters.
> 
> Each interface "could" have different mac parameters, because the mac sublayer
> means mac algorithmn which are done by phy. These parameters need to be the same
> on each interface. There are couple of mac sublayer parameters like ARET, CSMA,
> promiscuous mode, etc... These parameters will be changed if an interface will
> comming up, otherwise it's there but not running. Solution to run this device
> with different parameter is first down all others interfaces and then up the interface
> with the different parameters. (Difficult to explain maybe it's clear when you play a
> little bit with that).
> 
> PHY settings will directly set registers to the driver. There is no mac functionality.
> Only physical changes in radio frequency handling.
> 
> dump example for phy pib:
> 
> root@DistroKit:~ iwpan phy
> wpan_phy phy0
> supported channels:
>         page 0: 11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26 
> current_page: 0
> current_channel: 26
> cca_mode: 1
> tx_power: 3
> 
> dump example for mac pib:
> 
> phy#0
>         Interface mon0
>                 ifindex 5
>                 wpan_dev 0x2
>                 extended_addr 0x0000000000000000
>                 short_addr 0xffff
>                 pan_id 0xffff
>                 type monitor
>                 max_frame_retries 3
>                 max_be 5
>                 max_csma_backoffs 4
>                 min_be 3
>                 lbt 0
>         Interface wpan0
>                 ifindex 2
>                 wpan_dev 0x1
>                 extended_addr 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>                 short_addr 0xffff
>                 pan_id 0xabcd
>                 type node
>                 max_frame_retries 3
>                 max_be 5
>                 max_csma_backoffs 4
>                 min_be 3
>                 lbt 0
> 

ah command for this was "iwpan dev", like iw tool for wireless.

- Alex