RELEASE_NOTES 0.2.1

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Javier Cardona edited this page Feb 29, 2012 · 2 revisions

This is the fourth release of the open80211s stack, and the first one that has been accepted in the "wireless-testing kernel repository":http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=summary.

h2. Components

"o80211s stack RELEASE 0.2.1":http://o11s.org/trac/browse?p=open80211s.git;a=commit;h=1c692df20f87d773cf6448fa0eca3dc9ae3acd92
"o80211s iw b612d mesh support patch 0.2.1":http://o11s.org/patches/iw/iw-b612d-mesh-support-0.2.1.patch.
"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, same as previous release.
- Tested with "0.99.7":http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/wireshark-0.99.7.tar.gz
"HOWTO 0.2.1":/cozybit/open80211s/wiki/wiki:HOWTO-0.2.1

h2. New features

Per-neighbor rate adaptation.
Airtime link metric support for HWMP.
Support for scanning mesh networks.
Clean interfaces for beaconing.

h2. 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.