History log of /freebsd-9.3-release/sys/net80211/ieee80211_mesh.h
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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 202178 12-Jan-2010 rpaulo

Update mesh code to to D4.0.


# 198242 19-Oct-2009 rpaulo

Implement the missing support for updating the mesh conf number of
neighbors via ieee80211_beacon_notify().

MFC after: 3 days


# 197975 12-Oct-2009 rpaulo

Another 3.03 draft bit that I missed in the previous 802.11s stack
update. The Mesh Configuration IE has changed quite a bit. Refactor the
code to handle this change.

MFC after: 3 days


# 197413 22-Sep-2009 rpaulo

Update 802.11s mesh support to draft 3.03. This includes a revised frame
format for peering and changes to the PERR frames.
Note that this is incompatible with the previous code.

Reviewed by: sam
MFC after: 1 week


# 195908 27-Jul-2009 rpaulo

Mesh fixes, namely:
* don't clobber proxy entries
* HWMP seq number processing, including discard of old frames
* flush routing table entries based on nexthop
* print route flags in ifconfig
* more debugging messages and comments

Proxy changes submitted by sam.

Approved by: re (kib)


# 195813 21-Jul-2009 sam

store mesh timers as ticks and sysctls for changing the defaults

Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (kib)


# 195784 20-Jul-2009 rpaulo

More mesh bits, namely:
* bridge support (sam)
* handling of errors (sam)
* deletion of inactive routing entries
* more debug msgs (sam)
* fixed some inconsistencies with the spec.
* decap is now specific to mesh (sam)
* print mesh seq. no. on ifconfig list mesh
* small perf. improvements

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kib)


# 195618 11-Jul-2009 rpaulo

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.

Authentication and encryption are not implemented.

There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).

A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.

Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.

More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh

Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.

Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s