Enabling packet aggregation

Jouni Malinen j
Thu Feb 13 05:21:55 PST 2014


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:42:34PM +0100, Olivier Marce wrote:
> I'm trying to use it in 11n with packet aggregation.
> I put in my config file :
> ieee80211n=1
> wmm_enabled=1
> 
> So far I'm unable to see packets aggregation and BA in the AP and
> STA exchange. For testing I simply send a file over udp from one
> node to the other.
> 
> Did I miss some other configuration that enable packet aggregation ?
> And/or does the aggregation triggered on particular conditions ?

It should be enough to enable HT and WMM/QoS for this. The actual
aggregation decision is completely within the driver, so hostapd does
not have any control over that and as such, this question would be more
of a scope for the specific driver that you are using on the AP and STA.
 
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