When a link-layer address changes (e.g., ifconfig ex0 link
02🇩🇪ad:be:ef:02 active), send a gratuitous ARP and/or a Neighbor
Advertisement to update the network-/link-layer address bindings
on our LAN peers.
Refuse a change of ethernet address to the address 00:00:00:00:00:00
or to any multicast/broadcast address. (Thanks matt@.)
Reorder ifnet ioctl operations so that driver ioctls may inherit
the functions of their "class"---ether_ioctl(), fddi_ioctl(), et
cetera---and the class ioctls may inherit from the generic ioctl,
ifioctl_common(), but both driver- and class-ioctls may override
the generic behavior. Make network drivers share more code.
Distinguish a "factory" link-layer address from others for the
purposes of both protecting that address from deletion and computing
EUI64.
Return consistent, appropriate error codes from network drivers.
Improve readability. KNF.
*** Details ***
In if_attach(), always initialize the interface ioctl routine,
ifnet->if_ioctl, if the driver has not already initialized it.
Delete if_ioctl == NULL tests everywhere else, because it cannot
happen.
In the ioctl routines of network interfaces, inherit common ioctl
behaviors by calling either ifioctl_common() or whichever ioctl
routine is appropriate for the class of interface---e.g., ether_ioctl()
for ethernets.
Stop (ab)using SIOCSIFADDR and start to use SIOCINITIFADDR. In
the user->kernel interface, SIOCSIFADDR's argument was an ifreq,
but on the protocol->ifnet interface, SIOCSIFADDR's argument was
an ifaddr. That was confusing, and it would work against me as I
make it possible for a network interface to overload most ioctls.
On the protocol->ifnet interface, replace SIOCSIFADDR with
SIOCINITIFADDR. In ifioctl(), return EPERM if userland tries to
invoke SIOCINITIFADDR.
In ifioctl(), give the interface the first shot at handling most
interface ioctls, and give the protocol the second shot, instead
of the other way around. Finally, let compatibility code (COMPAT_OSOCK)
take a shot.
Pull device initialization out of switch statements under
SIOCINITIFADDR. For example, pull ..._init() out of any switch
statement that looks like this:
switch (...->sa_family) {
case ...:
..._init();
...
break;
...
default:
..._init();
...
break;
}
Rewrite many if-else clauses that handle all permutations of IFF_UP
and IFF_RUNNING to use a switch statement,
switch (x & (IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING)) {
case 0:
...
break;
case IFF_RUNNING:
...
break;
case IFF_UP:
...
break;
case IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING:
...
break;
}
unifdef lots of code containing #ifdef FreeBSD, #ifdef NetBSD, and
#ifdef SIOCSIFMTU, especially in fwip(4) and in ndis(4).
In ipw(4), remove an if_set_sadl() call that is out of place.
In nfe(4), reuse the jumbo MTU logic in ether_ioctl().
Let ethernets register a callback for setting h/w state such as
promiscuous mode and the multicast filter in accord with a change
in the if_flags: ether_set_ifflags_cb() registers a callback that
returns ENETRESET if the caller should reset the ethernet by calling
if_init(), 0 on success, != 0 on failure. Pull common code from
ex(4), gem(4), nfe(4), sip(4), tlp(4), vge(4) into ether_ioctl(),
and register if_flags callbacks for those drivers.
Return ENOTTY instead of EINVAL for inappropriate ioctls. In
zyd(4), use ENXIO instead of ENOTTY to indicate that the device is
not any longer attached.
Add to if_set_sadl() a boolean 'factory' argument that indicates
whether a link-layer address was assigned by the factory or some
other source. In a comment, recommend using the factory address
for generating an EUI64, and update in6_get_hw_ifid() to prefer a
factory address to any other link-layer address.
Add a routing message, RTM_LLINFO_UPD, that tells protocols to
update the binding of network-layer addresses to link-layer addresses.
Implement this message in IPv4 and IPv6 by sending a gratuitous
ARP or a neighbor advertisement, respectively. Generate RTM_LLINFO_UPD
messages on a change of an interface's link-layer address.
In ether_ioctl(), do not let SIOCALIFADDR set a link-layer address
that is broadcast/multicast or equal to 00:00:00:00:00:00.
Make ether_ioctl() call ifioctl_common() to handle ioctls that it
does not understand.
In gif(4), initialize if_softc and use it, instead of assuming that
the gif_softc and ifp overlap.
Let ifioctl_common() handle SIOCGIFADDR.
Sprinkle rtcache_invariants(), which checks on DIAGNOSTIC kernels
that certain invariants on a struct route are satisfied.
In agr(4), rewrite agr_ioctl_filter() to be a bit more explicit
about the ioctls that we do not allow on an agr(4) member interface.
bzero -> memset. Delete unnecessary casts to void *. Use
sockaddr_in_init() and sockaddr_in6_init(). Compare pointers with
NULL instead of "testing truth". Replace some instances of (type
*)0 with NULL. Change some K&R prototypes to ANSI C, and join
lines.
- replace rssadapt(9) with amrr for automatic rate control.
- don't blindly IFQ_DEQUEUE() then drop a Tx packet if there are no
available Tx resources.
- move default MAC/BBP/RF settings from rt2661.c to rt2661reg.h.
- enable packet bursting when operating as a STA.
- implement new ic_updateslot() callback.
- in hostap mode, we defer update of the slot time until all associated
STAs are notified with updated beacons.
- 802.11a uses a 16 microseconds short interframe space.
- Fix rt2661_set_macaddr() so that we don't override the "unicast to me"
flag in RT2661_MAC_CSR3 when setting the MAC address.
- fix index of ERP information element in beacons.
Add a couple of tweaks of my own:
- The RX/TX BUSY flag should be the last thing written to a descriptor.
- Check and service any additional h/w interrupts before returning
from the isr.
Tested in STA, AP, and Monitor modes. Tested with WEP, WPA, and WPA2 crypto.
Additional testing by xtraeme@
RT2560+RT2661: update the physical address in the RX descriptor after
bus_dmamap_load() in the case where the same mbuf is reloaded.
modify interrupt handlers to exit early and return 0 on shared interrupts.
RT2661:
flags for register TXRX_CSR4 were shifted one bit too much on the left.
this has probably affected short preamble support as well as hardware
multi-rate retries settings.
fix handling of the SIOCS80211CHANNEL ioctl in monitor mode:
don't call xxx_set_chan() if the interface is not up&running.
Tested with the following hw:
ral0 at pci5 dev 0 function 0: Ralink Technologies RT2561 802.11b/g (rev. 0x00)
ral0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20 (irq 10)
ral0: 802.11 address 00:80:5a:4f:ab:e2
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527
error = (cmd == SIOCADDMULTI) ?
ether_addmulti(ifr, &sc->sc_ec) :
ether_delmulti(ifr, &sc->sc_ec);
if (error == ENETRESET) {
to this,
if ((error = ether_ioctl(ifp, cmd, data)) == ENETRESET) {
which does the same thing.
(A bazillion is a very large number. This seems to make the i386
ALL kernel smaller by 3kB to 4kB.)
Use ifreq_getaddr() twice in es(4).
Whitespace nits.
identify sockaddr_dl abuse that remains in the kernel, especially
the potential for overwriting memory past the end of a sockaddr_dl
with, e.g., memcpy(LLADDR(), ...).
Keep track of the average RSSI using an Exponential Moving Average (EMA).
Use it to dynamically tune radio receive sensitivity.
The idea is simple:
- increase sensitivity when the RSSI is bad to optimize throughput on
long distance to the AP, and
- decrease sensitivity when the RSSI is good to reduce noise level and
optimize throughput on short distance to the AP
The EMA allows to smooth RSSI variations so we don't end up changing the
sensitivity too frequently. We check if it would be worth updating the
sensitivity every one second.
RSSI thresholds were taken from the Ralink Tech. Linux driver.
from FreeBSD/OpenBSD that supersedes ral*.[ch].
Not yet enabled because I don't have a CardBus controller to test and it
will most likely crash during detach.
I tried to include our modifications, but if something is missing please
tell me or add it.
Special thanks to minipci.biz for the donation of one PCI RT2661 and
one CardBus RT2661.
