open80211s 0.1.2: "Merry X-Mesh" (21st Dec 2007)

Note: this page is for Release 0.1.2. Please see the latest HOWTO for up-to-date documentation.

This is the second release of the open80211s stack, including mesh peer link management.

Components

• o80211s stack 0.1.2
•  o8011s iproute2-2.6.23 mesh support patch 0.1.2.
  • Tested with  iproute2-2.6.23.
•  o80211s wireshark-0.99.6 mesh support patch 0.1.1.
  • Tested with  Wireshark 0.99.6
• HOWTO 0.1.2

New features

• Mesh peer link establishment support (no security).
• Nodes may be configured to automatically establish peer links, or only on user request.
• Mesh statistics through debugfs.
• Mesh config knobs through debugfs, including general mesh TTL and mesh peer link timeouts.
• Traffic filtering on mesh interfaces according with mesh peer link state.
• Support to blacklist / whitelist nodes for testing.
• Pending queue: frames for unresolved destinations will be queued and transmitted when a path to their destination is discovered. The implementation is experimental and does not implement frame expiration yet, but it does implement a per-destination pending frames limit.
•  bissell lift off revolution turbo

Known issues

• Broadcast forwarding is deactivated until a table of recently multicast frames is implemented, to avoid traffic explosion.
• A 'CLOSE' mesh peer link management frame will cause the closing of links on 'ESTABLISHED' state even if the link ids do not match. This allows to avoid a dead lock without having to allow multiple peer links per peer.