[Click] About click_wifi_extra struct

Robert Sombrutzki sombrutz at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Mar 10 12:00:20 EST 2011


Sorry, my mistake. "retries" is used for feedback packets. It tells you how 
many retries the card needed before the packet transmission was successful.

Robert

On Donnerstag, 10. März 2011, Roberto Riggio wrote:
> Yes, I know.
>
> What I meant is: why we need retries AND max_tries (0,1,2,3).
>
> Isn't max_tries (0,1,2,3) enough?
>
> R.
>
> Il 10/03/2011 17:22, Robert Sombrutzki ha scritto:
> > No, it wouldn't be enough. Athencap (Madwifi) as well as radiotapencap
> > support up to 4 different rate/retries-pairs. So the retries-field in the
> > click_wifi_extra is like max_tries0. So overall you have
> > max_tries(0,1,2,3).
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > On Donnerstag, 10. März 2011, Roberto Riggio wrote:
> >> Why the click_wifi_extra has a retries and several max_tries(1,2,3)
> >> fields? Shouldn't just the later be enough to pass the data to the
> >> radiotapencap element?
> >>
> >> R.
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