On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 17:27 +0200, Eliad Peller wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Fred Chou <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21/12/2014 9:25 PM, Eliad Peller wrote: > >> dot11MulticastTransmittedFrameCount should be updated according > >> to the DA, which might be different from hdr1. > > > > Shouldn't address 1 be used to determine whether the MPDU is multicast? > > From Std-2012 definition of multicast: "When applied to a MAC protocol > > data unit (MPDU), it is an MPDU with a group address in the Address 1 > > field." > > > good point. i guess it depends on the meaning of > dot11MulticastTransmittedFrameCount - > multicast frames sent by sta are not multicast frames per se (as they > are sent directly to the AP), but they are destined to multicast > group. > > i tried understanding the meaning of this MIB from here (as i couldn't > find clear definition in the spec): > http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Translate&objectInput=dot11MulticastTransmittedFrameCount
Yeah I can't find a good reference in the spec either - anyone want to dig through the flow charts? :) Btw, since this is ancient code from devicescape, it is possible that they only cared about AP mode then - and there there's no difference between the addresses. > where it seems to be similar (IIUC) to the way i interpreted it, but i > might got it wrong :) I think you're probably right - however I wonder if we can stick the code elsewhere (like subif xmit?) instead of introducing more conditionals here? johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
