Hi Folks, I have been using the bridging code to build out a small wireless network with five nodes. I am not sure if anyone on this list is familiar with OpenAP (small linux dist for running on x86-based AP stations) or the HostAP driver (wireless driver for Prism2 chipset), but that's what I'm using. The nodes in the network are "loosely" connected -- that is, the number of connections each node has varies from about 1-4. I am using STP to remove loops. However, sometimes this results in STP "settling" on using links that have low signal strengths. This makes the performance of the network drop, and thus I would like to take signal strength into account via pathcosts. Eventually, I will be automatically computing pathcosts by using some formula that involves the inverse of the signal strength (high signal strength => low path cost). However, as a quick test to make sure the pathcost stuff was going to work like I want it to, I tried to manually impose my own beliefs about which links should be used by simply setting them to have pathcost 1, and all other links to pathcost 300. To my disappointment, this did not work. I know it didn't, because I am using the patch I just submitted to discover the actual path my packets are following. Has anyone on the list used pathcosts successfully? Is there a trick to doing it besides simply 'brctl setpathcost br0 wlan0wds0 1'? Does anyone have any reason to believe the pathcost code does or does not work? Thanks very much,
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