Ok, well Kartlnet then. Or WORP. It IS cool to see an open source solution though.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Lars Gaarden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Welcome to 1997. ;-D > > > > Traffic shaping does take a huge difference, but there are many > > alternatives to frottle. FreeBSD Dummynet, Linux CBQ, YDI BCU, ETInc, > > Allot, Packateer, Mikrotik, Cisco rate-limit, etc etc etc. > > Frottle is different, in that you control timing/access to the > wireless medium. That is, you effectively replace the media access > part of the 802.11 MAC with a token system. > > Each client has a Linux gateway box that will only forward packets to > the wireless side when it receives a token that tells it to go ahead. > A device on the AP end does the media control and sends tokens to > clients. > > The effect is that you just ignore CSMA/CA, RTS/CTS and hidden node > problems because frottle controls which client can send when by > sending tokens to the gateway boxes. > > Would it be more efficient to have this implemented as a part of > 802.11 instead of implementing it in the application layer on small > Linux boxes? Definately. But it is none the less a cool hack, and > does illustrate that a token/polling algorithm helps in situations > where the 802.11 MAC breaks down. Sort of a free (except for the > hardware) Karlnet light. > > -- > LarsG > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges > <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
