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mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.

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The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame
format to use 3-address.  This was done to avoid interactions with widely
deployed lazy-WDS access points.

This patch changes the format of group addressed frames, both mesh-originated
and proxied, to use the data format defined in draft D2.08 and forward.  The
address fields used for group addressed frames is:

In 802.11 header
 ToDS:0  FromDS:1
 addr1: DA  (broadcast/multicast address)
 addr2: TA
 addr3: Mesh SA

In address extension header:
 addr4: SA  (only present if frame was proxied)

Note that this change breaks backward compatibility with earlier mesh stack
versions.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona
2009-08-10 12:15:48 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent a9e3091bf0
commit 3c5772a527
5 changed files with 136 additions and 56 deletions
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net/mac80211/mesh.h
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@@ -193,8 +193,11 @@ struct mesh_rmc {
/* Public interfaces */
/* Various */
int ieee80211_fill_mesh_addresses(struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr, __le16 *fc,
char *da, char *sa);
int ieee80211_new_mesh_header(struct ieee80211s_hdr *meshhdr,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, char *addr4,
char *addr5, char *addr6);
int mesh_rmc_check(u8 *addr, struct ieee80211s_hdr *mesh_hdr,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
bool mesh_matches_local(struct ieee802_11_elems *ie,