I haven't looked at the dfs branch yet,
so I'll start looking at that and see what is done/isn't done.

I'm not too familiar with the dfs functionality, but will read up on the sp=
ecs.

I wonder if the standard ever considered synchronizing 400 nodes that are a=
ll
within range of each other. 54Mbps(more like 24Mbps)/400 doesn't give
very much bandwidth...

Can you tell me or point me to some info on what's being considered
for the DFS branch?
thanks,
--Daniel

On 7/4/07, Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr> wrote:
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> Daniel Wu a =E9crit :
> > Have you looked at ticket 1033 and 1093 to see how those patches
> > help in your 400 node network?
> > http://madwifi.org/ticket/1033
> > http://madwifi.org/ticket/1033
> >
> > I like to try and help pinpoint the problem(s) and fix em.
> > I have about 3 more days of free time before I get back to "real" work,
> > so I like to try and get this IBSS/adhoc mode stuff fixed once and for =
all.
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> >
> > (disclaimer: I haven't tried either patch, but will do so next week)
> >
> >
> I'd like to comment on the IBSS merge & the fix provided. First of all,
> 802.11 standards does not requires that IBSSID be linked to the MAC
> addr, it can just be random. Computing a hash on the BSSID is a nice
> optimization to have all nodes in the same IBSS to instantly converges
> on the same IBSSID. However, there are another issue that is linked to
> IBSS merge : beacon generation needs to be synchronized & shared.
> Otherwise, if you have 400 nodes in range, they will broadcast 4000
> beacons per seconds instead of 10!
>
> I'm currently working on beacon generation for the DFS branch (it
> currently generates some errors, especially in IBSS mode) and to merge
> the patch provided in #1033. How can we synchronize our efforts?
>
> Best regards,
> Benoit
>
>
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