[Battlemesh] Limit minimum bitrate

Antonio Quartulli antonio at meshcoding.com
Fri Sep 12 17:31:25 UTC 2014


Basic rates should be selectable for AP mode too, but you have to check
the hostapd configuration manual.

Cheers,

On 12/09/14 19:19, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I had in mind AP mode, for clients. But interesting to learn about IBSS
> join as well.
> 
> But I really think it is useful to be limit the minimum bitrate. It is
> strange for me that is not easily available. Am I missing something? Is
> it not a good idea?
> 
> 
> Mitar
> 
>> Mitar, you may want to check the basic-rates argument of the ibss join
>> command. (assuming we are talking about ibss mode):
>>
>> from the output of "iw dev wlan0 ibss join":
>>
>> [basic-rates <rate in Mbps,rate2,...>]
>>
>> all the stations must have the same basic rates to join the ibss cell.
>> Rates that are not part of the basic-rate set should not be used by the
>> stations.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On 12/09/14 14:52, Pau wrote:
>>> Not sure if it solves your question, but just in case it helps you somehow.
>>> In a mesh network you can use the mcast_rate option to set the multicast rate of the WiFi devices. So if the routing protocol is using multicast flooding to discover neighbors, it will only discover those who are available at this specific rate.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> On 12/09/14 14:00, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
>>>> * Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> [12.09.2014 08:56]:
>>>>> This seems to fix the bitrate to a fixed one, not setting the minimum one.
>>>>
>>>> as far as i understand, you can set a "allowed rateset" with 'iw', which
>>>> should fit your needs...
>>>>
>>>> bye, bastian
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Antonio Quartulli

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