Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:48:49 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ack, Net80211 & ath Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=F9LhJaVoQT1t%2BTV-KCPh_D%2BnmH2BGNW=FkFBAzc7Mig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BsBSoLmGGZBWLSFbm9kh9YoRa4NO_wkx_330f_U7U7SH8s%2BkA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BsBSoLmGGZBWLSFbm9kh9YoRa4NO_wkx_330f_U7U7SH8s%2BkA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Yup, you're right. net80211 doesn't get notification of it by default. What do you need it for? Adrian On 27 July 2011 18:23, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > How is ack frames being handled by the net80211? I guess the driver > (or maybe hardware) takes care of resending, but what happens if it > max number of retries is reached? How is net8011 notified? > > There is ieee80211_add_callback that I think should be used for that, > but it is only used by managment frames of type > IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_ASSOC_REQ, IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_REASSOC_REQ and > IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_AUTH (in station mode) and one for HT code. > > What about the others? I guess the hardware only keeps stat counters > for failures.... > > br, > > -- > //Monthadar Al Jaberi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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