and off.
Add a sysctl, net.ieee80211.maxinact, for adjusting the node time-out
interval. After net.ieee80211.maxinact seconds of inactivity, an
AP will purge a peer/client-record. Now the client has to reassociate.
independently from net80211 debug messages. Create a new sysctl,
net.ieee80211.rssadapt.debug, for turning the debug messages on
and off.
Create a new sysctl, net.ieee80211.rssadapt.expavgctl, to control
the rate of decay for the exponential averages used by rssadapt(9).
Fix authentication where I had botched it with the FreeBSD import.
(In FreeBSD, net80211 is strangely subroutine-averse, so where we
have ieee80211_auth_open and ieee80211_auth_shared, they incorporate
all of ieee80211_auth_open into ieee80211_recv_mgmt. I had not
realized that was why the 20 lines of new code.)
I have pulled that code into the function ieee80211_rssadapt_choose
so that I can re-use it in ath(4), atw(4), and in other drivers.
In rssadapt(9), I have also created a struct ieee80211_rssadapt_expavgctl
that contains parameters for rate adaptation. When IEEE80211_RSSADAPT_DEBUG
is enabled, I will using sysctl to expose an ieee80211_rssadapt_expavgctl
for each wireless device.
Also in rssadapt(9), I have introduced an interpolate() macro which
makes the exponential-averaging code more compact.
denote a signed dBm Rx power, so rename them to _DBM_ and change
the signedness. Add new _DB_ flags for unsigned Rx power measured
from an arbitrary reference.
Try to synchronize net80211/ieee80211_radiotap.h with my tcpdump
sources (which public tcpdump has not seen, yet) and with FreeBSD.
802.11 drivers will use ieee80211_find_rxnode to match each received
packet with the ieee80211_node belonging to the sender. The driver
will use the ieee80211_node to track the sender's RSSI and other
statistics for, e.g., rate adaptation.
ieee80211_find_rxnode "fakes-up" missing ieee80211_nodes in IBSS
mode and in ad-hoc demo mode when it is appropriate. See the comments
in the source.
Also add ieee80211_find_txnode, which looks up the ieee80211_node
belonging to a MAC destination. ieee80211_find_txnode will also
fake-up missing nodes in IBSS/ad-hoc demo mode.
In ieee80211_encap, use ieee80211_find_txnode. This fixes the bug
in ad hoc packet-transmission reported by Greg Troxel, Urban Boquist,
and Kurt Schreiner.
Adaptation Strategy for IEEE 802.11 WLAN via Received Signal Strength
Measurement" by Javier del Prado Pavon and Sunghyun Choi. This
module should provide faster adaptation and higher throughput than
Lucent's rate-adaptation scheme.
Individual drivers need to be modified to use this module. Patches
for wi(4) are forthcoming.
a different BSS, because that keeps drivers like atw from detecting
ad hoc beacons with the same SSID but different BSSID for the
purpose of IBSS merges.
This should be revisited: maybe drivers should check for beacons
before handing packets up with ieee80211_input(). However, this
restores the atw(4) to working like it did with the old 802.11
layer, and it *is* nice to re-use the 802.11 layer's packet-decode
& -dispatch code (i.e., the ic_recv_mgmt callback).
dyoung