Re: Experiencing very slow browsing at times (atheros wireless)

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/2/07, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/07, Petr Janda <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> > Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> > > This time you need to
> > > sysctl net.wlan.0.ignore_bcnseq=1
> > >
> > > You probably want to put that in /etc/sysctl.conf
> > >
> >
> > Hi, will try it soon.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, how is this patch better than the one before and
> > why is it better to use a sysctl: if there are other people with same
> > problem who do not necessarily browse the mailing list, they would have
> > hard time finding the sysctl which would fix the problem.
>
> I have reread the related subclause, it seems standards allow STA to
> ignore mcast/bcast's TX seq when detecting duplicated MAC frames; this
> also means the sysctl may not be necessary at all.
>
> Please nuke all old patches and test a new patch :)
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/skip_multi.diff
>
> No extra sysctl tuning is needed for this patch.  And please make a
> quickkernel at least, since in the last patch I changed layout of
> ieee80211com and I reverted it in the above patch.
>
> I will wait a week for your to test it.

Does it work for you?

Best Regards,
sephe

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