counterpart also takes, i.e. "fdx" for "full-duplex", "flow" for
"flowcontrol", "hdx" for "half-duplex" as well as "loop" and "loopback"
for "hw-loopback".
MFC after: 1 week
in a comma delimited list instead of repeating "mediaopt" for each one.
This matches how the options of the active media are printed with
print_media_word() and brings us in line what NetBSD does.
MFC after: 2 weeks
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
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)
o revised channel handling support; ifconfig now queries the kernel to
find the list of available channels and handles channel promotion;
channel attributes can be specified as part of the channel; e.g. 36:a
for channel 36 in 11a (as opposed to turbo A or HT A)
o use channel list to map between freq and IEEE channel #; this eliminates
all knowledge of how the mapping is done and fixes handling of cases
where channels overlap in the IEEE channel # space but are distinct in
the frequency+attributes space (e.g. PSB)
o add new knobs: bgscan, ff (Atheors fast frames), dturbo (Atheros
Dynamic Turbo mode), bgscanidle, bgscanintvl, scanvalid, roam:rssi11a,
roam:rssi11b, roam:rssi11g, roam:rate11a, roam:rate11b, roam:rate11g
(roaming parameters), burst, doth (forthcoming 11h support)
o print contents of WME, ATH, WPA, RSN, information elements with -v option
o print signal strength in dBm
o print noise floor in dBm
o add list txpow to print tx power caps/channel
o change default channel display in status to be more informative
one. This is based on NetBSD but unlike NetBSD this implementation prints
the instance number for all media instances and doesn't skip it for the
first one as I don't see a reason to suppress it except for the vague
reason to preserve the output for single-instance configurations.
- Fix some whitespace nits.
its value once per ifconfig run. Use Sam's new callback
operation to set it when everything is done.
The purpose for this is that if you did something like
ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
multiple times it would end up causing the PHY to re-sync
since it would send the IOCTLs:
ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX -mediaopt full-duplex
ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
This would cause the PHY to be updated twice even though
there really wasn't any change since the check in
sys/net/if_media.c would always fail.
Caveat is that this doesn't fix the case of:
ifconfig bge0 media autoselect
etc. since in sys/net/if_media.c it forces an autoselect to go through
the entire process in ifmedia_ioctl :-( :
/*
* If no change, we're done.
* XXX Automedia may invole software intervention.
* Keep going in case the the connected media changed.
* Similarly, if best match changed (kernel debugger?).
*/
if ((IFM_SUBTYPE(newmedia) != IFM_AUTO) &&
(newmedia == ifm->ifm_media) &&
(match == ifm->ifm_cur))
return 0;
Briefly looked at by: sam
special-purpose code to display status for an interface for
state that was not address-oriented. This status reporting
was merged in to the address-oriented status reporting but
did not work for link address reporting (as discovered with
fwip interfaces). Correct this mis-merge and eliminate the
bogus kludge that was used for link-level address reporting.
o add an af_other_status method for an address family for
reporting status of things like media, vlan, etc.
o call the af_other_status methods after reporting address
status for an interface
o special-case link address status; when reporting all
status for an interface invoke it specially prior to
reporting af_other_status methods (since it requires the
sockaddr_dl that is passed in to status separately from
the rtmsg address state)
o correct the calling convention for link address status;
don't cast types, construct the proper parameter
This fixes ifconfig on fwip interfaces.
o break per-address family support out into separate files
o modularize per-address family and functional operations using
a registration mechanism; this permits configuration according
to which files you include (but beware that order of the files
is important to insure backwards compatibility)
o many cleanups to eliminate incestuous behaviour, global variables,
and poor coding practices (still much more to fix)
The original motivation of this work was to support dynamic addition
of functionality based on the interface so we can eliminate the various
little control programs and so that vendors can distribute ifconfig
plugins that support their in-kernel code. That work is still to be
completed.
o Update 802.11 support for all the new net80211 functionality; some
of these operations (e.g. list *) may be better suited in a different
program
be changed, it is very convenient to be able to toggle SDH/Sonet,
idle/unassigned cells and scrambled mode and to see the carrier
state.
Reviewed by: -arch (if_media.h definitions)
This works for wi(4), but apparantly other wireless drivers seem to do
the right thing.
Submitter and yours truly both got Mislead(tm).
Submitted by: udp <udp@sneakerz.org>
printed on a single, very long, and generally unreadable line. This
isn't very useful. It's also really ugly and most of the time you don't
care what media is supported anyway.
PR: 27701
Submitted by: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
despite the fact that most people want to set exactly the same settings
regardless of which card they have. It has been repeatidly suggested
that this configuration should be done via ifconfig. This patch
implements the required functionality in ifconfig and add support to the
wi and an drivers. It also provides partial, untested support for the
awi driver.
PR: 25577
Submitted by: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
place rather than updating the main loop's index variables from within
a subroutine and other revolting things like that. Move some more
globals into local variables.
program and it's use of global variables. Somehow, I managed to miss the
most obvious case.. "ifconfig ed0 10.0.0.1" failed (no "inet")
Submitted by: dfr
