Query on WMM AC parameters configuration using netlink

Phani Siriki yvsg.phanis at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 07:33:10 PST 2018


Could someone help me on this?

Best Regards
Phani

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Phani Siriki <yvsg.phanis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am working on changing the TXQ queue parameters dynamically using
> netlink sockets.
>
> As of now, I was able to change the TXQ parameters used by AP(tx_queue
> parameters in hostap.conf) by setting the structure
> NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_TXQ_PARAMS.
>
> I tested this on mininet-wifi and I able to see below debug output.
>
> Feb 21 11:57:01 wifi-VirtualBox kernel: [38320.963179] ieee80211
> mn00s02: mac80211_hwsim_conf_tx (queue=0 txop=0 cw_min=7 cw_max=15
> aifs=2)
> Feb 21 11:57:01 wifi-VirtualBox kernel: [38320.963184] ieee80211
> mn00s02: mac80211_hwsim_bss_info_changed(changed=0x2000
> vif->addr=02:00:00:00:02:00)
>
> Now, I want to change the wmm_ac parameters as well, but couldn't get
> the exact netlink parameter to set.
>
> Could someone point me the nl80211 parameter used to set these
> parameters in AP, so that AP can advertise these values to stations in
> their IE?
>
> Best Regards
> Phani



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