freebsd-dev/sbin/ifconfig
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
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af_atalk.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
af_inet6.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
af_inet.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
af_ipx.c Remove IPX over IP tunneling pieces from ifconfig(8), omitted portion of 2007-06-13 18:07:59 +00:00
af_link.c use getifaddrs from libc instead of private code 2007-02-24 23:55:46 +00:00
ifbridge.c Add an option to limit the number of source MACs that can be behind a bridge 2007-11-04 08:32:27 +00:00
ifcarp.c Use afswch->af_other_status for carp_status() and pfsync_status(). 2005-02-22 14:07:47 +00:00
ifclone.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
ifconfig.8 Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the 2009-07-11 15:02:45 +00:00
ifconfig.c Add the "vnet" and "-vnet" options, to allow moving interfaces between 2009-06-24 18:21:37 +00:00
ifconfig.h - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
ifgif.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
ifgre.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
ifgroup.c Default to AF_LOCAL instead of AF_INET sockets for non-family-specific 2009-03-15 22:33:18 +00:00
ifieee80211.c Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the 2009-07-11 15:02:45 +00:00
iflagg.c Do no spam the ifconfig output for the aggregated interface with 'laggdev laggX'. 2009-04-30 14:31:52 +00:00
ifmac.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
ifmedia.c Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the 2009-07-11 15:02:45 +00:00
ifpfsync.c Print pfsync interface status if either syncpeer or syncdev is configured. 2006-06-06 11:21:08 +00:00
ifvlan.c - Use size_t instead of int when appropriate; 2009-06-23 23:49:52 +00:00
Makefile Add the "vnet" and "-vnet" options, to allow moving interfaces between 2009-06-24 18:21:37 +00:00
regdomain.c Regulatory fixups: 2009-02-07 01:12:51 +00:00
regdomain.h Regulatory fixups: 2009-02-07 01:12:51 +00:00