[Battlemesh] Broadcast lost because of hidden station

Henning Rogge hrogge at gmail.com
Thu May 8 17:43:07 UTC 2014


No,

this change is about the "rx bitrate" field in the mac80211 station
info... it was not working correctly in adhoc mode.

Henning

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
> I'm curious if a recent changeset to OpenWRT trunk with Henning's name on it
> is relevant this to thread about unreliable multicasts:
> https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/40696/trunk
>
> If so, has it yielded a noticeable improvement?
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Henning Rogge <hrogge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> RTS/CTS is a good explanation... I remember seeing RTS packets, maybe
>> the CTS wasn't visible in my trace because it was produced by the
>> local station.
>>
>> Still its an annoying problem... routing agent drops route because of
>> no multicasts but in theory unicast still works.
>>
>> Henning
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Paul Fuxjaeger <fuxjaeger at ftw.at> wrote:
>> > On 26.04.14 12:07, Henning Rogge wrote:
>> >> but I would expect that at least "one in five" broadcasts would make
>> >> it through, because unicasts get up to 4 retransmissions.
>> >
>> > retransmission are sent in "fast" succession, maybe that helps to get
>> > them received easier or maybe RTS/CTS is enabled?
>> >
>> > But if you don't see those non-retried frames EVER (multicast FER=1
>> > while unicast FER<<1 while using the same channel code) this sounds like
>> > the problem is located somewhere "higher".
>> >
>> >
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