RELEASE_NOTES 0.2.0

Note: page is for Release 0.2.0. Please see the "latest HOWTO":http://o11s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO for up-to-date documentation.

This is the third release of the open80211s stack, and the first one that is fully usable. Enjoy!

Components

• "o80211s stack RELEASE 0.2.0":http://www.o11s.org/trac/browse?p=open80211s.git;a=commit;h=3a0ee5d29adedb0bc0b04a3366f30e58be34e127
• "o8011s iproute2-2.6.23 mesh support patch 0.2.0":http://o11s.org/patches/iproute2/iproute2-2.6.24-mesh-support-0.2.0.patch.
  • Tested with " iproute2-2.6.24-rc7":http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.24-rc7.tar.bz2.
• "o80211s wireshark-0.99.7 mesh support patch 0.2.0":http://o11s.org/patches/wireshark/wireshark-0.99.7-mesh-support-0.2.0.patch.
  • Tested with "Wireshark 0.99.7":http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-0.99.7.tar.gz
• "HOWTO 0.2.0":/cozybit/open80211s/wiki/wiki:HOWTO-0.2.0

New features

• Multicast/broacast frame forwarding with controlled flooding.
• On-Demand HWMP (based on hopcount, not airtime link metric)

Known issues

• Multiple links per peer are not supported. To avoid deadlocks that would result from this limitation, a 'CLOSE' mesh peer link management frame will close all links 'ESTABLISHED' with the sender even if link IDs do not match.