Re: MCS field: RFA
David Young <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.netbsd.radiotap |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:36:05AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 11:47 -0600, David Young wrote: > > > FreeBSD uses the flags field and the channel flags to indicate Short > > GI and 40 MHz frames. Let's adopt the FreeBSD definitions for that > > purpose. > > I'd mostly agree, but I'm not sure what they really use the 40MHz flag > for. For instance, might there be value in knowing that the AP opened > the channel for 40MHz, but for some reason we are doing 20MHz > transmissions instead? And would this be an appropriate way of > conferring that information? I should take a closer look at the implementation. A per-packet radio information header does not need to carry the information of what the AP could have done, but didn't, does it? I think it should carry the information that describes the properties of the packet. Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [email protected] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933