it's not just 11b/11g.
The following was happening, and it's quite .. annoyingly grr-y.
* create vap, setup wpa_supplicant with no bgscanning, etc - there's
no call to ieee80211_media_change, so vap->iv_des_mode is
IEEE80211_MODE_AUTO;
* do ifconfig wlan0 scan - same thing, media_change doesn't get called,
iv_des_mode stays as auto.
* But then, run wpa_cli and do 'scan' - it'll do a media change.
* if you're on 11ng, vap->iv_des_mode gets changed to IEEE80211_MODE_11NG
* Then makescanlist() is called. There's a block of code that gets
called if iv_des_mode != IEEE80211_MODE_AUTO, and it does this:
if (vap->iv_des_mode != IEEE80211_MODE_11G ||
mode != IEEE80211_MODE_11B)
continue;
mode = IEEE80211_MODE_11G; /* upgrade */
* .. now, iv_des_mode is not IEEE80211_MODE_11G, so it always runs
'continue'
* .. and thus the scan list stays empty and no further channel
scans occur. Ever.(1)
If you then disassociate and try associating to something, your
scan table has likely been purged / aged out and you'll never
see anything in the scan list.
(1) You need to do 'ifconfig wlan0 mode auto' or just destroy/re-create
the VAP to get working wireless again.
Tested:
* iwn(4) - intel 5300 wifi; STA mode; using wpa_supplicant; bgscan
enabled -and- wpa_supplicant scanning.
Thanks to:
* Everyone who kept poking me about this and wondering why the hell
their wifi would eventually stop seeing scan lists. Grr.
I eventually snapped this evening and dug back into this code.
- Wrong integer type was specified.
- Wrong or missing "access" specifier. The "access" specifier
sometimes included the SYSCTL type, which it should not, except for
procedural SYSCTL nodes.
- Logical OR where binary OR was expected.
- Properly assert the "access" argument passed to all SYSCTL macros,
using the CTASSERT macro. This applies to both static- and dynamically
created SYSCTLs.
- Properly assert the the data type for both static and dynamic
SYSCTLs. In the case of static SYSCTLs we only assert that the data
pointed to by the SYSCTL data pointer has the correct size, hence
there is no easy way to assert types in the C language outside a
C-function.
- Rewrote some code which doesn't pass a constant "access" specifier
when creating dynamic SYSCTL nodes, which is now a requirement.
- Updated "EXAMPLES" section in SYSCTL manual page.
MFC after: 3 days
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I've decided that for 11n rates it's best to start (very) low and work
our way up.
So, from now on, the initial rate for AMRR 11n is MCS4.
It doesn't try MCS12 or MCS20 - at low signal strengths those don't
work very well at all.
AMRR will step the rate control up over time if things work out better.
Tested:
* Intel 5100
* Intel 5300 (using local diffs to test out 3x3 stream support)
The original commit was supposed to stop the ability to do raw frame
injection in monitor mode to arbitrary channels (whether supported
by regulatory or not) however it doesn't seem to have been followed
by any useful way of doing it.
Apparently AHDEMO is supposed to be that way, but it seems to require
too much fiddly things (disable scanning, set a garbage SSID, etc)
for it to actually be useful for spoofing things.
So for now let's just disable it and instead look to filter transmit
in the output path if the channel isn't allowed by regulatory.
That way monitor RX works fine but TX will be blocked.
I don't plan on MFC'ing this to -10 until the regulatory enforcement
bits are written.
request during SLEEP results in a hang.
Whilst I'm here, add in some disabled code that will transition to RUN
if there's multicast traffic. It's not needed for Atheros hardware but
it may be for other hardware.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode (powersave)
* AR5212, STA mode (powersave)
SLEEP rather than RUN.
Without this things like 'ifconfig wlan0 list sta' don't work when the
NIC is power save.
Tested:
* AR5212, STA mode (with powersave)
* AR5416, STA mode (with powersave)
This transitions the VAP in and out of SLEEP state based on:
* whether there's been an active transmission in the last (hardcoded) 500ms;
* whether the TIM from the AP indicates there is data available.
It uses the beacon reception to trigger the active traffic check.
This way there's no further timer running to wake up the CPU
from its own sleep states.
Right now the VAP isn't woken up for multicast traffic - mostly because
the only NIC I plan on doing this for right will auto wakeup and stay
awake for multicast traffic indicated in the TIM. So I don't have
to manually keep the hardware awake.
This doesn't do anything if the NIC doesn't advertise it implements
the new SWSLEEP capability AND if the VAP doesn't have powersave
enabled.
It also doesn't do much with ath(4) as it doesn't currently implement
the SLEEP state.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode (with local ath(4) changes)
Frames transmitted during SLEEP state should be queued in the
power save queue before waking the unit up. Otherwise DHCP
requests and such will be dropped if the NIC is asleep - the
NIC will wake up but not transmit the frame.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
The origin of WEP comes from IEEE Std 802.11-1997 where it defines
whether the frame body of MAC frame has been encrypted using WEP
algorithm or not.
IEEE Std. 802.11-2007 changes WEP to Protected Frame, indicates
whether the frame is protected by a cryptographic encapsulation
algorithm.
Reviewed by: adrian, rpaulo
decides to do nothing.
If this isn't done, then a scan request whilst a scan occurs in an active
channel set or a completed channel set will hang.
Tested:
* Intel 5100, STA mode
There were two bugs:
* If the initial lowest rate didn't go through the loop at least once,
the AMRR rate index would be the highest rate in the table
(eg the rix mapping to MCS15) but rate would stay at the default
value, namely 0.
This meant that the initial rate selection would be MCS15 _but_ the
node ni_txrate value would be MCS0.
* If the node is 11n, then break out of the loop correctly. Beforehand,
my initial 11n AMRR commit would immediately exit out as it would
fail the 11n check, then it would always fall through to the non-11n
rate which would then see if it was < 36mbit (ie, "72"), which would
always match. Hence, it'd always return MCS15.
Tested:
* Intel Centrino 2230 STA (local changes), STA mode
* Intel Wifi 5100, STA
For now, the AMRR code only knows about _either_ MCS or non-MCS rates.
It doesn't know how to downgrade (ie, doing 11b CCK rates if MCS0 isn't
reliable.)
PR: kern/183428
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
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from a management frame transmission.
This bug is a bit loopy, so here goes.
The underlying cause is pretty easy to understand - the node isn't
referenced before passing into the callout, so if the node is deleted
before the callout fires, it'll dereference free'd memory.
The code path however is slightly more convoluted.
The functions _say_ mgt_tx - ie management transmit - which is partially
true. Yes, that callback is attached to the mbuf for some management
frames. However, it's only for frames relating to scanning and
authentication attempts. It helpfully drives the VAP state back to
"SCAN" if the transmission fails _OR_ (as I subsequently found out!)
if the transmission succeeds but the state machine doesn't make progress
towards being authenticated and active.
Now, the code itself isn't terribly clear about this.
It _looks_ like it's just handling the transmit failure case.
However, when you look at what goes on in the transmit success case, it's
moving the VAP state back to SCAN if it hasn't changed state since
the time the callback was scheduled. Ie, if it's in ASSOC or AUTH still,
it'll go back to SCAN. But if it has transitioned to the RUN state,
the comparison will fail and it'll not transition things back to the
SCAN state.
So, to fix this, I decided to leave everything the way it is and merely
fix the locking and remove the node reference.
The _better_ fix would be to turn this callout into a "assoc/auth request"
timeout callback and make the callout locked, thus eliminating all races.
However, until all the drivers have been fixed so that transmit completions
occur outside of any locking that's going on, it's going to be impossible
to do this without introducing LORs. So, I leave some of the evilness
in there.
Tested:
* AR5212, ath(4), STA mode
* 5100 and 4965 wifi, iwn(4), STA mode
I changed it to use if_transmit a while ago but apparently with monitor
mode the if_transmit method is overridden.
This is (mostly) a workaround until a more permanent solution can be
found.
Submitted by: Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org>
Approved by: re@ (gjb)
The aim of this function is to eventually be the completion entry point
for all 802.11 encapsulated mbufs. All the wifi drivers end up doing
what is in this function so it's an easy win to turn it into a net80211
method and abstract out this code.
Ideally the drivers will all eventually be modified to queue up completed
mbufs and call this function with all the driver locks not held.
This will allow for some much more interesting software queue handling
in the future (like net80211 based A-MSDU, fast-frames, A-MPDU aggregation
and retransmission.)
Tested:
* ath(4), iwn(4)
together.
Add M_FLAG_PRINTF for use with printf(9) %b indentifier.
Use the generic mbuf flags print names in the net80211 code and adjust
the protocol specific bits for their new positions.
Change SCTP M_PROTO mapping from 5 to 1 to fit within the 16bit field
they use internally to store some additional information.
Discussed with: trociny, glebius
M_LASTFRAG flags to protocol specific flags.
Remove the now unused M_FRAG, M_FIRSTFRAG and M_LASTFRAG mbuf flags.
Discussed with: trociny, glebius, adrian
upper layer(s).
This eliminates the if_snd queue from net80211. Yay!
This unfortunately has a few side effects:
* It breaks ALTQ to net80211 for now - sorry everyone, but fixing
parallelism and eliminating the if_snd queue is more important
than supporting this broken traffic scheduling model. :-)
* There's no VAP and IC flush methods just yet - I think I'll add
some NULL methods for now just as placeholders.
* It reduces throughput a little because now net80211 will drop packets
rather than buffer them if the driver doesn't do its own buffering.
This will be addressed in the future as I implement per-node software
queues.
Tested:
* ath(4) and iwn(4) in STA operation
the normal and the mesh transmit paths can use.
The API is a bit horrible because it both consumes the mbuf and frees
the node reference regardless of whether it succeeds or not.
It's a hold-over from how the code behaves; it'd be nice to have it
not free the node reference / mbuf if TX fails and let the caller
decide what to do.
* Add 802.11n 2ghz and 5ghz tables, including legacy rates and up to
MCS23 rates (3x3.)
* Populate the rate code -> rate index lookup table with MCS _and_
normal rates, but _not_ the basic rate flag. Since the basic rate flag
is the same as the MCS flag, we can only use one.
* Introduce some accessor inlines that do PLCP and rate table lookup/access
and enforce that it doesn't set the basic rate bit. They're not
designed for MCS rates, so it will panic.
* Start converting drivers that use the rate table stuff to use the
accessor inlines and strip the basic flag.
* Teach AMRR about basic 11n - it's still as crap for MCS as it is
being used by iwn, so it's not a step _backwardS_.
* Convert iwn over to accept 11n MCS rates rather than 'translate' legacy
to MCS rates. It doesn't use a lookup table any longer; instead it's a
function which takes the current node (for HT parameters) and the
rate code, and returns the hardware PLCP code to use.
Tested:
* ath - it's a no-op, and it works that way
* iwn - both 11n and non-11n
The "find node" function call will increase the node reference anyway;
so there's no reason to hold the node table lock during the MLME change.
The only reason I could think of is to stop overlapping mlme ioctls
from causing issues, but this should be fixed a different way.
This fixes a whole class of LORs that creep up when nodes are being
timed out or removed by hostapd.
Tested:
* AR5416, hostap, with nodes coming and going. No LORs or stability
issues were observed.
When creating fragment frames, the header length should honour the
DATAPAD flag.
This fixes the fragments that are queued to the ath(4) driver but it
doesn't yet fix fragment transmission. That requires further changes
to the ath(4) transmit path. Well, strictly speaking, it requires
further changes to _all_ wifi driver transmit paths, but this is at least
a start.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode, w/ fragthreshold set to 256.
before using said node.
The "blessed" way here is to take a node reference before referencing
anything inside the node, otherwise the node can be freed between
the time the pointer is copied/dereferenced and the time the node contents
are used.
This mirrors fixes that I've done elsewhere in the net80211/driver
stack.
PR: kern/178470
the given node.
This takes into account the per-node cap, the ic cap and the
per-channel regulatory caps.
This is designed to replace references to ni_txpower in various net80211
drivers - ni_txpower doesn't necessarily reflect the actual cap for
the given node (eg if the node has the default value of 50dBm (100) and
the administrator has manually configured a lower TX power.)
This patchset implements a new TX lock, covering both the per-VAP (and
thus per-node) TX locking and the serialisation through to the underlying
physical device.
This implements the hard requirement that frames to the underlying physical
device are scheduled to the underlying device in the same order that they
are processed at the VAP layer. This includes adding extra encapsulation
state (such as sequence numbers and CCMP IV numbers.) Any order mismatch
here will result in dropped packets at the receiver.
There are multiple transmit contexts from the upper protocol layers as well
as the "raw" interface via the management and BPF transmit paths.
All of these need to be correctly serialised or bad behaviour will result
under load.
The specifics:
* add a new TX IC lock - it will eventually just be used for serialisation
to the underlying physical device but for now it's used for both the
VAP encapsulation/serialisation and the physical device dispatch.
This lock is specifically non-recursive.
* Methodize the parent transmit, vap transmit and ic_raw_xmit function
pointers; use lock assertions in the parent/vap transmit routines.
* Add a lock assertion in ieee80211_encap() - the TX lock must be held
here to guarantee sensible behaviour.
* Refactor out the packet sending code from ieee80211_start() - now
ieee80211_start() is just a loop over the ifnet queue and it dispatches
each VAP packet send through ieee80211_start_pkt().
Yes, I will likely rename ieee80211_start_pkt() to something that
better reflects its status as a VAP packet transmit path. More on
that later.
* Add locking around the management and BAR TX sending - to ensure that
encapsulation and TX are done hand-in-hand.
* Add locking in the mesh code - again, to ensure that encapsulation
and mesh transmit are done hand-in-hand.
* Add locking around the power save queue and ageq handling, when
dispatching to the parent interface.
* Add locking around the WDS handoff.
* Add a note in the mesh dispatch code that the TX path needs to be
re-thought-out - right now it's doing a direct parent device transmit
rather than going via the vap layer. It may "work", but it's likely
incorrect (as it bypasses any possible per-node power save and
aggregation handling.)
Why not a per-VAP or per-node lock?
Because in order to ensure per-VAP ordering, we'd have to hold the
VAP lock across parent->if_transmit(). There are a few problems
with this:
* There's some state being setup during each driver transmit - specifically,
the encryption encap / CCMP IV setup. That should eventually be dragged
back into the encapsulation phase but for now it lives in the driver TX path.
This should be locked.
* Two drivers (ath, iwn) re-use the node->ni_txseqs array in order to
allocate sequence numbers when doing transmit aggregation. This should
also be locked.
* Drivers may have multiple frames queued already - so when one calls
if_transmit(), it may end up dispatching multiple frames for different
VAPs/nodes, each needing a different lock when handling that particular
end destination.
So to be "correct" locking-wise, we'd end up needing to grab a VAP or
node lock inside the driver TX path when setting up crypto / AMPDU sequence
numbers, and we may already _have_ a TX lock held - mostly for the same
destination vap/node, but sometimes it'll be for others. That could lead
to LORs and thus deadlocks.
So for now, I'm sticking with an IC TX lock. It has the advantage of
papering over the above and it also has the added advantage that I can
assert that it's being held when doing a parent device transmit.
I'll look at splitting the locks out a bit more later on.
General outstanding net80211 TX path issues / TODO:
* Look into separating out the VAP serialisation and the IC handoff.
It's going to be tricky as parent->if_transmit() doesn't give me the
opportunity to split queuing from driver dispatch. See above.
* Work with monthadar to fix up the mesh transmit path so it doesn't go via
the parent interface when retransmitting frames.
* Push the encryption handling back into the driver, if it's at all
architectually sane to do so. I know it's possible - it's what mac80211
in Linux does.
* Make ieee80211_raw_xmit() queue a frame into VAP or parent queue rather
than doing a short-cut direct into the driver. There are QoS issues
here - you do want your management frames to be encapsulated and pushed
onto the stack sooner than the (large, bursty) amount of data frames
that are queued. But there has to be a saner way to do this.
* Fragments are still broken - drivers need to be upgraded to an if_transmit()
implementation and then fragmentation handling needs to be properly fixed.
Tested:
* STA - AR5416, AR9280, Intel 5300 abgn wifi
* Hostap - AR5416, AR9160, AR9280
* Mesh - some testing by monthadar@, more to come.
* The following bit flags where incroccetly defined:
o Mesh Control Present
o Mesh Power Save Level
o RSPI
This is now corrected according to Table 8.4 as per IEEE 802.11 2012;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
since the former is defined everywhere. This cuts off some code not
necessary on non strict aligment arches.
Reviewed by: adrian
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* Add the superg.h header to allow ieee80211_check_ff() to work
* Since the assert stuff creates assertions based on line numbers and there
was a conflict, just nudge things down a bit.
* Added hwmp_update_transmitter function that checks if the metric
to the transmitter have improved. If old FI is invalid or metric
is larger the FI to the transmitter is updated occurdingly.
This is a recommendation from the 802.11 2012 standard, table 13-9;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* When calling ieee80211_mesh_rt_flush_peer, the rt->rt_dest argument
should not be passed because it can get freed before invalidating
the other routes that depends on it to compare with next_hop.
Use PERR_DADDR(i) instead;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* The standard is unclear about what should happen in case a mesh STA (not
marked as a mesh gate) recevies a PREQ for a destination that is marked
as proxy. Solution for now is not to do intermediate reply at all, and
let the PREQ reach the mesh gate;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Original PREP frame is transmitted only by the target mesh STA or the
mesh STA that is the proxy target;
* Fixed so that metric value is not over written incorrectly in
hwmp_recv_preq for when replying back with a PREP;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
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)
* Modified mesh_find_txnode to be able to handle proxy marked entries by
recursively calling itself to find the txnode towards the active mesh gate;
* Mesh Gate: Added a new function that transmits data frames
similar to ieee80211_start;
* Modified ieee80211_mesh_forward_to_gates so that:
+ Frames are duplicated and sent to each valid Mesh Gate;
+ Route is marked invalid before return of function, this is
because we dont know yet which Mesh Gate is we will use;
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)
when not peered.
* Modified ieee80211_recv_action to check if neighbour is peered for
IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_MESH frames, if not frame is discarded. This is
according to IEEE802.11 2012 standard;
* Removed duplicate checks in each hwmp_recv_* handlers because HWMP
is a subtype of mesh action;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Removed meshlm_send_action and hwmp_send_action. Introduced one common
for all Mesh Action frames meshaction_send_action. According to 802.11
standard Link Metric and HWMP are all under Mesh Action category;
* Did similar changes to recv_action part;
* The size of meshaction_*_action is set to 12. This is to make room for
the rest of Mesh Action category subtypes;
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)
* An HWMP PERR should be accepted even if path is valid. Because
we check if we recevied it from a neighbour that we use as a next hop;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* A bug occurs while in discovery mode which leaves a path marked with
both Discover and Valid flag. This happens when receiving/sending
PREQ and PREP in a particular order. Solution is to assign the Valid bit
instead of oring it;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
This problem happens when using ACL policy to filter mesh STA
but two nodes have different policy. Then one of them will try to
peer all the time. This can also help if for any reason one of the
peering mesh STA have problems sending/receiving peer frames.
* Modified struct ieee80211_node to include two new fields:
+ struct callout ni_mlhtimer /* link mesh backoff timer */
+ uint8_t ni_mlhcnt /* link mesh holding counter */
* Added two new sysctl (check sysctl -d for more info):
+ net.wlan.mesh.backofftimeout=5000
+ net.wlan.mesh.maxholding=2;
* When receiving a beacon and we are in IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_IDLE
check if ni_mlhcnt >= ieee80211_mesh_maxholding, if so do not do anything;
* In mesh_peer_timeout_cb when transitioning from IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_HOLDING
to IEEE80211_NODE_MESH_IDLE increment ni_mlhcnt, and eventually start
ieee80211_mesh_backofftimeout;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Add HTINFO field decoding to ieee80211_ies_expand() - it's likely not
100% correct as it's not looking at the draft 11n HTINFO location,
but I don't think anyone will care.
* When doing an IBSS join make sure the 11n channel configuration
is used - otherwise the 11a/11bg channel will be used
and there won't be any chance for an upgrade to 11n.
* When creating an IBSS network, ensure the channel is updated to an
11n channel so other 11n nodes can see it and speak to it with MCS
rates.
* Add a bit of code that's disabled for now which handles the HT
field updating. This won't work out very well with lots of adhoc
nodes as we'd end up ping-ponging between the HT configuration for
each node. Instead, we should likely only pay attention to the
"master" node we initially associated against and then ensure we
propagate that information forward in our subsequent beacons. However,
due to the nature of IBSS (ie, there's no specific "master" node in
the specification) it's unclear which node we should lift the HT
parameters from.
So for now this assumes the HT parameters are squirreled away in the
initial beacon/probe response.
So there's some trickiness here.
With ap/sta pairing, the probe response just populates a legacy node
and the association request/response is what is used for negotiation
11n-ness (and upgrading things as needed.)
With ibss networks, the pairing is done with probe request/response,
with discovery being done by creating nodes when new beacons in the
IBSS / BSSID are heard. There's no assoc request/response frames going on.
So the trick here has been to figure out where to upgrade things.
I don't like how I just taught ieee80211_sta_join() to "speak" HT -
I'd rather there be an upgrade path when an IBSS node joins and there
are HT parameters present. Once I've done that, I'll kill this
HT special casing that's going on in ieee80211_sta_join().
Tested:
* AR9280, AR5416, AR5212 - basic iperf and ping interoperability tests
whilst in a non-encrypted adhoc network.
TODO:
* Fix up the HT upgrade path for IBSS nodes rather than adding code
in ieee80211_sta_join(), then remove my code from there.
* When associating, there's a concept of a "master" node in the IBSS
which is the node you first joined the network through. It's possible
the correct thing to do is to listen to HT updates and configure WME
parameters from that node. However, once that node goes away, which
node(s) should be listened to for configuration changes?
For things like HT channel width, it's likely going to be ok to
just associate as HT40 and then use the per-neighbor rate control
and HTINFO/HTCAP fields to figure out which rates and configuration
to speak. Ie, for a 20MHz 11n node, just speak 20MHz rates to
it. It shouldn't "change", like what goes on in AP/STA configurations.
save queue code.
Instead, use if_transmit() directly - and handle the cases where frame
transmission fails.
I don't necessarily like this and I think at this point the M_ENCAP check,
node freeing upon fail and the actual if_transmit() call should be done
in methods in ieee80211_freebsd.c, but I digress slightly..
This removes one of the last few uses of if_start() and the ifnet
if_snd queue. The last major offender is ieee80211_output.c, where
ieee80211_start() implements if_start() and uses the ifnet queue
directly.
(There's a couple of gotchas here, where the if_start pointer is
compared to ieee80211_start(), but that's a later problem.)
If the data frame transmission failures, it may have a node reference
that needs cleaning up.
If the frame is marked as M_ENCAP then it should treat recvif as a node
reference and clear it.
Now - since the mbuf has been freed by calling if_transmit() (even on
failure), the mbuf has to be treated as invalid. Hence why the ifp is
used.
If if_transmit() fails, the node ref may need freeing.
This is based on the same logic used by the ageq, which the mesh code
(re) uses for frames which need to be staged before transmitting.
It also does the same thing - if M_ENCAP is set on the mbuf, it treats
the recvif pointer as a node reference and derefs it.
processing. For if_transmit() style hardware drivers (which none publicly
exist yet, for wireless) they will need to still implement if_start()
but only to re-start the TX queue.
an IBSS VAP to RUN.
An 11n IBSS was beaconing HTINFO/HTCAP IE's that didn't have any HT
information setup (like the HT TX/RX MCS bitmask.)
Tested:
* AR9280, IBSS - both a statically setup channel and a scanned channel
PR: kern/172955
parameters in IBSSes.
IBSS was just being plainly ignored here even though aggressive mode
was 'on'.
This still doesn't fix the "why are the WME parameters reset upon
interface down/up" issue.
PR: kern/165969
is totally wrong.
If we parse the WME IE here, we'll be constantly updating the WME
configuration from each WME enabled IBSS node we see.
There's a separate issue where the WME configuration is blanked out
when the interface is brought up; the WME parameters aren't "sticky."
Also, ieee80211_init_neighbor() parses the ath IE, so doing it here
isn't required.
Sorry about the noise.
PR: kern/165969
The Adhoc support wasn't parsing and handling the ath specific and WME
IEs, thus the atheros vendor support and WME TXOP parameters aren't being
copied from the peer.
It copies the WME parameters from whichever adhoc node it decides to
associate to, rather than just having them be statically configured
per adhoc node. This may or may not be exactly "right", but it's certainly
going to be more convienent for people - they just have to ensure their
adhoc nodes are setup with correct WME parameters.
Since WME parameters aren't per-node but are configured on hardware TX
queues, if some nodes support WME and some don't - or perhaps, have
different WME parameters - things will get quite quirky.
So ensure that you configure your adhoc nodes with the same WME
parameters.
Secondly - the Atheros Vendor IE is parsed and operated on per-node, so
this should work out ok between nodes that do and don't do Atheros
extensions. Once you see a becaon from that node and you setup the
association state, it _should_ parse things correctly.
TODO:
* I do need to ensure that both adhoc setup paths are correctly updating
the IE stuff. Ie, if the adhoc node is created by a data frame instead
of a beacon frame, it'll come up with no WME/ath IE config. The next
beacon frame that it receives from that node will update the state.
I just need to sit down and better understand how that's suppose to
work in IBSS mode.
Tested:
* AR5416 <-> AR9280 - fast frames and the WME configuration both popped
up. (This is with a local HAL patch that enables the fast frames
capability on the AR5416 chipsets.)
PR: kern/165969