Commit Graph

27 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rui Paulo
59aa14a91d Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
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
2009-07-11 15:02:45 +00:00
Sam Leffler
385a7316b4 make implicit pad visible 2009-06-11 17:10:21 +00:00
Sam Leffler
6a76ae216e Add modes for 1/2 and 1/4-width channels so we have separate roaming
and xmit parameters.  This makes it possible to use tdma on fractional
channels.
o add IEEE80211_MODE_HALF and IEEE80211_MODE_QUARTER; note these are
  band-agnostic (may need revisiting)
o setup all default rates in ic_sup_rates instead of doing it only
  for active modes; we need these to calculate the default tx parameters
  which are not recalculated after a regulatory update (can't just
  recalculate after installing a new channel list because we might
  clobber user settings)
o remove special case code in ieee80211_get_suprates; this is now
  a candidate for an inline or removal
o add various entries for new modes (roaming+tx params, wme, rate
  mapping, scan set setup, country ie construction, tdma, basic rates)

Note these modes are intentionally not visible through if_media.
2009-02-19 05:21:54 +00:00
Sam Leffler
544347253f add phy types for 1/2 and 1/4-rate modes 2009-02-19 04:19:58 +00:00
Sam Leffler
00a7aacaa7 Extend channel definition with:
o max antenna gain
o driver private opaque data

Note this grows the size of a channel to 16 bytes; which makes the
default channel table 4Kbytes (up from 3Kbytes).
2009-01-27 23:48:13 +00:00
Sam Leffler
3d13a95516 o make %b msg bit defines public (to user apps too)
o rename IEEE80211_C_CRYPTO_BITS to IEEE80211_CRYPTO_BITS
2009-01-27 23:00:38 +00:00
Sam Leffler
998c561f7b add new state bit to indicate when interference is observed on the channel 2009-01-27 22:46:34 +00:00
Sam Leffler
f3ab1589e8 change IEEE80211_IS_CHAN_OFDM and IEEE80211_IS_CHAN_CCK to return true
for 11g (dynamic CCK/OFDM)
2009-01-27 22:45:31 +00:00
Sam Leffler
8fed2e0450 define IEEE80211_CHAN_108A and IEEE80211_CHAN_108G in terms of their
non-turbo names to make the relationship more clear
2009-01-27 22:43:32 +00:00
Sam Leffler
76df237570 add defines for driver-private bits to eliminate use of constants 2009-01-23 18:15:09 +00:00
Sam Leffler
31378b1c87 Fix definition of IEEE80211_CHAN_MAX; it was defined as 255 but
really was meant to be 256.  Adjust usage accordingly and replace
bogus usage of this value in checking IEEE channel #'s.

NB: this causes an ABI change; ifconfig must be recompiled
2008-12-15 01:26:33 +00:00
Sam Leffler
d1abf1f411 add 1/2 and 1/4 channel flags to IEEE80211_CHAN_ALL so that operations
like ieee80211_find_channel are more useful
2008-10-25 23:24:49 +00:00
Sam Leffler
b032f27c36 Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.
Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral).  Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.

Supported by:	Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by:	many
Obtained from:	Atheros (some bits)
2008-04-20 20:35:46 +00:00
Sam Leffler
f0ee92d585 o add IEEE80211_RATE_MCS to use instead of naked constant (for marking MCS)
o correct ieee80211_rate2media handling of MCS
o correct rate HT announcements for 11n devices

Approved by:	re (blanket wireless)
2007-09-18 20:46:36 +00:00
Sam Leffler
b337fbc435 o move IEEE80211_NONQOS_TID into a public location
o add IEEE80211_TID_SIZE and replace all the nake constants

Approved by:	re (blanket wireless)
2007-09-18 20:40:21 +00:00
Sam Leffler
3f87f68e74 Update channel definition:
o add ic_extieee to hold the HT40 extension channel number
o add ic_state to track dynamic channel state for DFS
o add flags to mark regulatory channel requirements
o add state defs for DFS/radar support

Reviewed by:	avatar
Approved by:	re (blanket wireless)
2007-09-05 20:37:39 +00:00
Andrew Thompson
b54b1bab4b Change the channel number in the scan results struct to be a pointer to the
operating channel and use this in the scan cache rather than directly using
ic_curchan. Some firmware cards can only do a full scan and so ic_curchan does
not have the correct value.

Also add IEEE80211_CHAN2IEEE to directly dereference ic_ieee from the channel
to be used in the fast path.

Reviewed by:	sam, sephe
Approved by:	re (kensmith)
2007-06-30 21:23:23 +00:00
Sam Leffler
68e8e04e93 Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
  fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
  these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
  background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
  mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
  on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
  mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
  we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
  and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
  drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
  for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
  prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
  encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
  large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
  authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
  net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
  results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
  index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
  multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing

Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
       dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
       new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
       rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested

This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others.  Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros.  The 11n work was supported by Marvell.
2007-06-11 03:36:55 +00:00
Sam Leffler
ae8b733312 copyright updates:
o update to include 2007
o switch back to a 2-clause bsd-only license

Reviewed by:	onoe
2007-06-06 04:56:04 +00:00
Sam Leffler
49aa47d6c7 add ieee80211_opmode_name array for mapping the opmode to a string
for printing diagnostic msgs

MFC after:	2 weeks
2007-03-07 04:35:07 +00:00
Sam Leffler
d9ff043726 add IEEE80211_IS_CHAN_PASSIVE
MFC after:	1 week
2007-02-02 02:45:33 +00:00
Sam Leffler
ca4ac7ae14 Add initial support for 900MHz cards like the Ubiquiti SR9:
o add channel flag to enable freq <-> ieee channel # mapping (can
  go away in the future when ieee number is precomputed)
o add mapping between 900mhz freq's and channel #'s that gives a
  unique channel # for each half/quarter/full width channel
o remove assumptions that half/quarter rate channels on happen in 11a
o remove assumptions that all 11g channels are full width
o ensure ic_curchan is reset on mode change so changing the channel
  list (e.g. on countrycode change) doesn't leave curchan set to an
  invalid channel

There is still an issue with switching rate sets; to be fixed separately.

MFC after:	1 month
2007-01-15 01:12:28 +00:00
Sam Leffler
41b3c790eb First cut at half/quarter-rate 11a channel support (e.g. for use
in the Public Safety Band):
o add channel flags to identify half/quarter-rate operation
o add rate sets (need to check spec on 4Mb/s in 1/4 rate)
o add if_media definitions for new rates
o split net80211 channel setup out into ieee80211_chan_init
o fixup ieee80211_mhz2ieee and ieee80211_ieee2mhz to understand half/quarter
  rate channels: note we temporarily use a nonstandard/hack numbering that
  avoids overlap with 2.4G channels because we don't (yet) have enough
  state to identify and/or map overlapping channel sets
o fixup ieee80211_ifmedia_init so it can be called post attach and will
  recalculate the channel list and associated state; this enables changing
  channel-related state like the regulatory domain after attach (will be
  needed for 802.11d support too)
o add ieee80211_get_suprates to return a reference to the supported rate
  set for a given channel
o add 3, 4.5, and 27 MB/s tx rates to rate <-> media conversion routines
o const-poison channel arg to ieee80211_chan2mode
2006-12-27 18:46:18 +00:00
Sam Leffler
047f1635dd add some useful definitions that'll be used soon 2005-12-12 17:57:00 +00:00
Sam Leffler
efefac4077 Don't use ic_curmode to decide when to do 11g station accounting,
use the station channel properties.  Fixes assert failure/bogus
operation when an ap is operating in 11a and has associated stations
then switches to 11g.

Noticed by:	Michal Mertl
Reviewed by:	avatar
MFC after:	2 weeks
2005-08-10 17:42:13 +00:00
Sam Leffler
1f1d781074 bump copyright for 2005 2004-12-31 22:42:38 +00:00
Sam Leffler
8a1b9b6ad4 Update 802.11 support; too much new functionality to fully describe
here but it includes completed 802.11g, WPA, 802.11i, 802.1x, WME/WMM,
AP-side power-save, crypto plugin framework, authenticator plugin framework,
and access control plugin frameowrk.
2004-12-08 17:26:47 +00:00