Hi Chun-Yeow, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Yeoh Chun-Yeow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Javier > > Are we allowed mesh STA to not forward and become a selfish node? > > A mesh STA that has dot11MeshForwarding equal to false does not forward > either MSDUs, or MMPDUs of type Multihop Action. The circumstances in which > a mesh STA may be allowed to become a non forwarding entity and the > authority to set dot11MeshForwarding to false are beyond the scope of > this standard. > > A mesh STA that does not forward is a special case of a mesh STA. Such > mechanism depends on whether the path selection protocol provides a > mechanism to allow mesh STAs not to participate in forwarding. The HWMP path > selection protocol provides such a mechanism, see 11C.9 (Hybrid wireless > mesh protocol (HWMP)).
Currently dot11MeshForwarding is not implemented, although it doesn't sound too hard. A hack to create a selfish node is set mesh_max_peer_links to 1 with iw, but obviously this is not ideal and a method to actually turn off forwarding would be preferred. Thomas _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://open80211s.com/mailman/listinfo/devel
