[PATCH] Disable high bitrates for WPA negotiations

[Ben Greear]

On 01/17/2013 11:56 AM, Christopher Wiley wrote:
> Temporarily disable "high" bitrates during association with a BSS.
>
> Users of wpa_supplicant can set disable_high_bitrates=1 in their
> interface config, which causes the driver to disable high bitrates on
> the interface during associations.  The user can then call over DBus via
> EnableHighBitrates() to re-enable high bitrates at their discretion.
>
> This is intended to facilitate staying at low bitrates all the way
> through DHCP negotiations and other one time initial connection setup
> steps.  Some setup processes, like WPA negotiation, can time out before
> the system rate control algorithm has a chance to wind down to sane
> rates.

Maybe add a CLI command or similar to re-enable the high
rates for those not interested in using dbus?

Also, it looks like this steps on any previous available-rates
selection logic in supplicant?  It would be nice if this
code took the configured rate settings into account,
having the logic in this patch never enable rates
previously disabled.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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