hostapd + channel bonding + 5GHz

Johannes Berg johannes
Wed Feb 23 00:22:32 PST 2011


On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 23:25 -0800, Lara Deek wrote:

> As for hostapd's "802.11n: scan for overlapping BSSes before starting
> 20/40MHz channel", I am aware that the restriction exists to reduce
> interference between overlapping APs and to avoid performance
> degradations. I just want to take the control from hostapd about when
> to proactively start/enable 20/40MHz operation.

Ah, so you mean more like actually operating in 40 MHz mode, but then
operating in 20 MHz only some of the time, maybe setting the 40 MHz
intolerant bit even? I'm not aware of a way to do it, but in some
scenarios it might make sense.

johannes




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