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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 /sys/i386/conf | |
| parent | ba5583d31888cb78136b114790fce49c792c14d0 (diff) | |
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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 'sys/i386/conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/i386/conf/GENERIC | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC index 1baa581..02f5a36 100644 --- a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC +++ b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ device xe # Xircom pccard Ethernet device wlan # 802.11 support options IEEE80211_DEBUG # enable debug msgs options IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE # age frames in AMPDU reorder q's +options IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH # enable 802.11s D3.0 support device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support |
