* 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
