hiya, I've started digging into what FreeBSD WDS is at. Yes, it's because I now need it at home. :-)
* there's two kinds of WDS - static and dynamic * I'm playing with dynamic WDS for now * with dynamic WDS, the STA/AP has a normal association with (ifconfig wlanX dwds) and then the AP side creates a VAP for each seen DWDS source * .. ie, a MAC address behind the STA. * Then, 'wlanwds' is supposed to watch the AP parent interface, and then plumb up the WDS VAP, insert it into the bridge, etc, when it comes up. So, a bunch of stuff doesn't work out of the box anymore! * firstly, there's no longer a parent interface - but we still have to provide it (eg 'ath0'.) It should be okay, but I need to dig into it some more. * I can somehow make the ath driver run out of RX buffers when DWDS is enabled - I'll dig into what's going on. * It is correctly receiving DWDS frames on the WDS VAP, and sending them back out, but it's not making it through to the parent interface and out to the station again. * And, there's no 'node' plumbed up in ifconfig wlan0 or ifconfig wlanX (WDS VAP) list sta. I need to go see what's going on there - the rate control code needs it at least; other state like A-MPDU will need it too. Next, I'll try the static WDS (wdslegacy) and see if I can at least plumb things up with that. Maybe I'll get lucky. -adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
