This is a code re-write. ic->raw_xmit need a pointer to ieee80211_node
for the destination node (da). I have reorganized the code so that
a pointer to the da node is searched for in the end & in one place.
* Make mesh_find_txnode public to be used by HWMP, renamed to
ieee80211_mesh_finx_txnode;
* changed the argument from ieee80211_node to ieee80211vap for all
hwmp_send_* functions;
* removed the 'sa' argument from hwmp_send_* functions as all HWMP frames
have the source address equal to vap->iv_myaddr;
* Modified hwmp_send_action so that if da is MULTCAST ni=vap->iv_bss
otherwise we called ieee80211_mesh_find_txnode. Also no need to hold
a reference in this functions if da is not MULTICAST as by finding the
node it became referenced in ieee80211_find_txnode;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Send frames that have no path to a known valid Mesh Gate;
* Added the function ieee80211_mesh_forward_to_gates that sends the frame
to the first found Mesh Gate in the forwarding information;
* If we try to discover again while we are discovering queue frame,
the discovery callout will send the frames either to mesh gates
or discards them silently;
* Queue frame also if we try to discover to frequently;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Add function ieee80211_mesh_mark_gate in ieee80211_mesh.h;
* When received a proactive PREQ or RANN with corresponding mesh gate
flag set, create a new entry in the known mesh gate list;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Modified mesh_recv_action_meshgate to do following:
+ if mesh STA already knows the mesh gate of the recevied GANN frame
+ if mesh gate is know, check seq number according to 802.11 standard
+ if mesh gate is not know, add it to the list of known mesh gates
+ if forwarding is enabled and ttl >= 1 then propagate the GANN frame;
* Declare a new malloc type M_80211_MESH_GT_RT;
* Declare a struct to store GANN information, ieee80211_mesh_gate_route. And
add it as a TAILQ list to ieee80211_mesh_state;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
A Mesh Gate should transmit a Mesh Action frame containing
ieee80211_meshgann_ie as its only information element periodically
every ieee80211_mesh_gateint ms. Unless the mesh gate is also configure
as a ROOT, then these frames should not be send.
This is according to 802.11 2012 standard;
* Introduce new SYSCTL net.wlan.mesh.gateint, with 10s default;
* Add two new functions mesh_gatemode_setup and mesh_gatemode_cb. This
is similar to how HWMP setups up a callout;
* Add two new action handlers mesh_recv_action_meshgate and
mesh_send_action_meshgate;
* Added ieee80211_add_meshgate to ieee80211_mesh.h;
* Modified mesh_send_action to look similar to hwmp_send_action. This is
because we need to send out broadcast management frames.
* Introduced a new flag for mesh state IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_ROOT. This flag
is now set by HWMP code when a mesh STA is configured as a ROOT. This
is then checked by mesh_gatemode_cb before scheduling a new callout;
* Added to new field to ieee80211_mesh_state:
+ struct callout ms_gatetimer
+ ieee80211_mesh_seq ms_gateseq;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Change all field prefix from pann_ to gann_;
* Added IEEE80211_MESHGANN_BASE_SZ macro to be used in the length field
of a GANN frame according to 802.11 standard;
* Changed gann_seq field type to uint32_t;
* Added a Gate Announcement interval field according to
IEEE802.11 2012 standard;
* Added IEEE80211_MESHRT_FLAGS_GATE as flag bit to ieee80211_mesh_route;
* Added IEEE80211_MESHRT_FLAGS_GATE as flag bit to ieee80211req_mesh_route;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Added a new discovery flag IEEE80211_MESHRT_FLAGS_DISCOVER;
* Modified ieee80211_ioctl.h to include IEEE80211_MESHRT_FLAGS_DISCOVER;
* Added hwmp_rediscover_cb, which will be called by a timeout to do
rediscovery if we have not reach max number of preq discovery;
* Modified hwmp_discover to setup a callout for path rediscovery;
* Added to ieee80211req_mesh_route to have a back pointer to ieee80211vap
for the discovery callout context;
* Modified mesh_rt_add_locked arguemnt from ieee80211_mesh_state to
ieee80211vap, this because we have to initialize the above back pointer;
Approved by: adrian
* Renamed IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHPANN to IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHGANN according to
amendment;
* Added IEEE80211_IOC_MESH_GATE that controls whether Mesh Gate Announcement
is activated or not;
* Renamed all flags from Portal to Gate in HWMP frames;
* Removed IEEE80211_ACTION_MESHPANN enum cause its part of the Mesh Action
category now as per amendment;
* Renamed IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_PORTAL to IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_GATE in
ieee80211_mesh_state flags;
* Modified ieee80211_hwmp.c/ieee80211_mesh.c to use new GATE flags;
Approved by: adrian
* Introduced a new HWMP sysctl, Root Confirmation Interval;
* Added hr_lastrootconf to hwmp_route, is for ratecheck for a specific ROOT;
* We missed reading RANN.interval subfield from a RANN frame before;
* Updated hwmp_recv_rann according to amendment, see comments;
Approved by: adrian
* Added mpp_senderror for Mesh Path Selection protocol;
* Added hwmp_senderror that will send an HWMP PERR according to the
supplied reason code;
* Call mpp_senderror when deleting a route with correct reason code
for whether the route is marked proxy or not;
* Call mpp_senderror when trying to forward an individually addressed
frame and there is no forwarding information;
Approved by: adrian
* Modified HWMP PREP/PREQ to contain a proxy entry and also changed PREP
frame processing according to amendment as following:
o Fixed PREP to always update/create if acceptance criteria is meet;
o PREQ processing to reply if request is for a proxy entry that is
proxied by us;
o Removed hwmp_discover call from PREQ, because sending a PREP will
build the forward path, and by receving and accepting a PREQ we
have already built the reverse path (non-proactive code);
* Disabled code for pro-active in PREP for now (will make a separate patch for
pro-active HWMP routing later)
* Added proxy information for a Mesh route, mesh gate to use and proxy seqno;
* Modified ieee80211_encap according to amendment;
* Introduced Mesh control address extension enum and removed unused struct,
also rename some structure element names.
* Modified mesh_input and added mesh_recv_* that should verify and process mesh
data frames according to 9.32 Mesh forwarding framework in amendment;
* Modified mesh_decap accordingly to changes done in mesh control AE struct;
Approved by: adrian
* Introduced ieee80211_mesh_rt_update that updates a route with the
maximum(lifetime left, new lifetime);
* Modified ieee80211_mesh_route struct by adding a lock that will be used
by both ieee80211_mesh_rt_update and precursor code (added in future commit);
* Modified in ieee80211_hwmp.c HWMP code to use new ieee80211_mesh_rt_update;
* Modified mesh_rt_flush_invalid to use new ieee80211_mesh_rt_update;
* mesh_rt_flush also checks that lifetime == 0, this gives route discovery
a change to complete;
* Modified mesh_recv_mgmt case IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_BEACON:
when ever we received a beacon from a neighbor we update route lifetime;
Approved by: adrian
* Added IEEE80211_MESH_MAX_NEIGHBORS and it is set to 15, same as before;
* Modified mesh_parse_meshpeering_action to verify MPM frame and send
correct reason code for when a frame is rejected according to standard spec;
* Modified mesh_recv_action_meshpeering_* according to the standard spec;
* Modified mesh_peer_timeout_cb to always send CLOSE frame when in CONFIRMRCV
state according to the standard spec;
Approved by: adrian
* Old struct ieee80211_meshpeer_ie had wrong peer_proto field size;
* Added IEEE80211_MPM_* size macros;
* Created an enum for the Mesh Peering Protocol Identifier field according
to the standard spec and removed old defines;
* Abbreviated Handshake Protocol is not used by the standard anymore;
* Modified mesh_verify_meshpeer to use IEEE80211_MPM_* macros for verification;
* Modified mesh_parse_meshpeering_action to parse complete frame, also to parse
it according to the standard spec;
* Modified ieee80211_add_meshpeer to construct correct MPM frames according to
the standard spec;
Approved by: adrian
* Added new action category IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_SELF_PROT which is used by 11s
for Mesh Peering Management;
* Updated Self protected enum Action codes to start from 1 instead of 0
according to the standard spec;
* Removed old and wrong action categories IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_MESHPEERING;
* Modified ieee80211_mesh.c and ieee80211_action.c to use the new action
category code;
* Added earlier verification code in ieee80211_input;
Approved by: adrian
* Added verify_mesh_*_len functions that verify the length
according to the amendment spec and return number of destination addresses
for allocation of appropriate struct size in memory;
* Modified hwmp_recv_action_meshpath to allocate HWMP ie instead of
storing them on the stack and store all available field according the flags;
* Modify hwmp_add_mesh* to work with all cases of HWMP according to amendment.
* Modify hwmp_send_* to calculate correct len of bytes for the HWMP ie.
* Added new M_80211_MESH_* malloc defines.
* Added macros with magic numbers for HWMP ie sizes according to amendment.
* Added the external address to all HWMP ie structs.
Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com
* Moved old categories as specified by D4.0 to be action fields of MESH category
as specified in amendment spec;
* Modified functions to use MESH category and its action fields:
+ ieee80211_send_action_register
+ ieee80211_send_action
+ ieee80211_recv_action_register
+ieee80211_recv_action;
* Modified ieee80211_hwmp_init and hwmp_send_action so they uses correct
action fields as specified in amendment spec;
* Modified ieee80211_parse_action so that it verifies MESH frames.
* Change Mesh Link Metric to use one information element as amendment spec.
Draft 4.0 defined two different information elements for request and response.
Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com
* Change the mesh IE size to be IEEE80211_MESH_CONF_SZ rather than the
size of the structure;
* conf_cap is now a uint8_t rather than a uint16_t (uint16_t in D3.0,
uint8_t in the amendment spec);
* Update mesh config capability bits - earlier bits were from draft X,
current is amendment spec;
* Update the following to be an enum rather than #define and added
a VENDOR entry too from the amendment spec;
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_PATH_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_METRIC_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CC_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_SYNC_*
IEEE80211_MESHCONF_AUTH_*
* Kept IEEE80211_MESHCONF_FORM_* and IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CAP_* as
defines because they are defined in a way that we need to mask in/out
information;
* In IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CAP_* IEEE80211_MESHCONF_CAP_TBTTA is removed
and 0x80 is made reserved as defined in the amendment spec.
Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com
Reviewed by: rpaulo
* don't clobber proxy entries
* HWMP seq number processing, including discard of old frames
* flush routing table entries based on nexthop
* print route flags in ifconfig
* more debugging messages and comments
Proxy changes submitted by sam.
Approved by: re (kib)
* bridge support (sam)
* handling of errors (sam)
* deletion of inactive routing entries
* more debug msgs (sam)
* fixed some inconsistencies with the spec.
* decap is now specific to mesh (sam)
* print mesh seq. no. on ifconfig list mesh
* small perf. improvements
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kib)
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s