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| author | rpaulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-07-11 15:02:45 +0000 |
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| committer | rpaulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-07-11 15:02:45 +0000 |
| commit | 8424d740209fc6cee8a8bc4deba2a40cdc77d1fd (patch) | |
| tree | 7dd4e6a8c026ec13b70ca0a34e625684d79ec055 /share/man/man4/mwl.4 | |
| parent | ba5583d31888cb78136b114790fce49c792c14d0 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-8424d740209fc6cee8a8bc4deba2a40cdc77d1fd.zip FreeBSD-src-8424d740209fc6cee8a8bc4deba2a40cdc77d1fd.tar.gz | |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/mwl.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/mwl.4 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/mwl.4 b/share/man/man4/mwl.4 index b31191b..32138c8 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/mwl.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/mwl.4 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\"/ -.Dd June 9, 2009 +.Dd July 8, 2009 .Dt MWL 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ module to work. Normally this module is loaded on demand by the driver but it may also be compiled into the kernel. .Pp -Supported features include 802.11n, power management, BSS, +Supported features include 802.11n, power management, BSS, MBSS, and host-based access point operation modes. All host/device interaction is via DMA. .Pp @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ AES-CCM, TKIP, and Michael cryptographic operations. The driver supports .Cm station , .Cm hostap , +.Cm mesh , and .Cm wds mode operation. @@ -139,6 +140,12 @@ ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_ap \e mode 11g .Ed .Pp +Create an 802.11a mesh station: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev mwl0 wlanmode mesh +ifconfig wlan0 meshid my_mesh mode 11a inet 192.168.0.10/24 +.Ed +.Pp Create two virtual 802.11a host-based access points, one with with WEP enabled and one with no security, and bridge them to the fxp0 (wired) device: |
