src/sys/dev/ral, branch release/8.1.0

MFC r206367, r206358, r206370, r206371, r206372, r206398, r206415,

2010-05-11T11:08:15Z

r206416, r206417, r206418, r206418: net80211 ratectl framework.

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the

2009-07-11T15:02:45Z

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

validate tx rate(s) in the raw xmit path

2009-05-29T23:41:31Z

Tested by: "Paul B. Mahol" (rum, bwi)

Overhaul monitor mode handling:

2009-05-20T20:00:40Z

o replace DLT_IEEE802_11 support in net80211 with DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO and remove explicit bpf support from wireless drivers; drivers now use ieee80211_radiotap_attach to setup shared data structures that hold the radiotap header for each packet tx/rx o remove rx timestamp from the rx path; it was used only by the tdma support for debugging and was mostly useless due to it being 32-bits and mostly unavailable o track DLT_IEEE80211_RADIO bpf attachments and maintain per-vap and per-com state when there are active taps o track the number of monitor mode vaps o use bpf tap and monitor mode vap state to decide when to collect radiotap state and dispatch frames; drivers no longer explicitly directly check bpf state or use bpf calls to tap frames o handle radiotap state updates on channel change in net80211; drivers should not do this (unless they bypass net80211 which is almost always a mistake) o update various drivers to be more consistent/correct in handling radiotap o update ral to include TSF in radiotap'd frames o add promisc mode callback to wi Reviewed by: cbzimmer, rpaulo, thompsa

Hoist 802.11 encapsulation up into net80211:

2009-03-30T21:53:27Z

o call ieee80211_encap in ieee80211_start so frames passed down to drivers are already encapsulated o remove ieee80211_encap calls in drivers o fixup wi so it recreates the 802.3 head it requires from the 802.11 header contents o move fast-frame aggregation from ath to net80211 (conditional on IEEE80211_SUPPORT_SUPERG): - aggregation is now done in ieee80211_start; it is enabled when the packets/sec exceeds ieee80211_ffppsmin (net.wlan.ffppsmin) and frames are held on a staging queue according to ieee80211_ffagemax (net.wlan.ffagemax) to wait for a frame to combine with - drivers must call back to age/flush the staging queue (ath does this on tx done, at swba, and on rx according to the state of the tx queues and/or the contents of the staging queue) - remove fast-frame-related data structures from ath - add ieee80211_ff_node_init and ieee80211_ff_node_cleanup to handle per-node fast-frames state (we reuse 11n tx ampdu state) o change ieee80211_encap calling convention to include an explicit vap so frames coming through a WDS vap are recognized w/o setting M_WDS With these changes any device able to tx/rx 3Kbyte+ frames can use fast-frames. Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo, avatar, imp, sephe

o add ic_rt to track the rate table for the current channel; this enables

2009-03-29T21:17:08Z

calculation of packet transmit times to do things like check txop limits o remove equivalent driver code and convert to use net80211 state

Eliminate ic_myaddr so changing the mac address of a device works correctly:

2009-03-29T17:59:14Z

o remove ic_myaddr from ieee80211com o change ieee80211_ifattach to take the mac address of the physical device and use that to setup the lladdr. o replace all references to ic_myaddr in drivers by IF_LLADDR o related cleanups (e.g. kill dead code) PR: kern/133178 Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo

remove now-redunant cardbus attachment.

2009-03-09T13:23:54Z

o use the new association callback to notify the driver when joining a bss

2008-10-27T16:46:50Z

in sta and adhoc modes; this should've been done forever ago as most all drivers use this hook to set per-station transmit parameters such as for tx rate control o adjust drivers to remove explicit calls to the driver newassoc method

Change the calling convention for ic_node_alloc to deal with

2008-06-07T18:38:02Z

some longstanding issues: o pass the vap since it's now the "coin of the realm" and required to do things like set initial tx parameters in private node state for use prior to association o pass the mac address as cards that maintain outboard station tables require this to create an entry (e.g. in ibss mode) o remove the node table reference, we only have one node table and it's unlikely this will change so this is not needed to find the com structure