Re: MCS field: RFA

Matteo Croce <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM, David Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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> David Young             OJC Technologies
> [email protected]      Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933
>

The channel width is a packet property in 802.11n IIRC
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