wds in hostap

[Rajashekhar Mansanpally]

Unicast packets from Client1 on AP1 to Client2 on AP2 will not be sent
on wds link to AP3. Broadcasts will be sent on all interfaces. 
Someone correct me if I am wrong.
 
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 05:51, sankpal_manisha wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> can anyone plz give me the explanation on following scenario?
> 
> 
>                WDS link
> cli1<------>AP1-----------AP2 <------>cli2
>              |
>              |WDS 
>              |link
>              AP3 <----->cl3
> 
> Here client1 wants to talk with client2.
> Is AP1 will transmit packets to  AP3 also?If yes,is there any way to avoid it? Has anyone tested such a scenario? 
> 
> and suppose AP3 and AP2 also has a WDS link then what are the packets that are going to be exchanged?
>               
> In the hostap driver the following is mentioned: 
> 
> there is currently no way of associating TX packets to correct wds device
>  *   when TX Exc/OK event occurs, so all tx_packets and some
>  *   tx_errors/tx_dropped are added to the main netdevice; using sw_support
>  *   field in txdesc might be used to fix this 
> 
> from this site
> www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/18950/2002/6/0/8926046/
> 
> i come to know that the sw_support field is used for the FID. so how one can use this field for wds?
> 
> 
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