Does TDMA on FreeBSD only support point to point applications

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Thu May 29 06:53:09 UTC 2014


Hi!

Yup. I don't think anyone sat down to figure out how the slot timings
should work for >1 slave station.

If someone wants to figure it out based on what Sam's paper covers,
I'll be happy to help try hacking it up on the Atheros hardware. :-)


-a


On 28 May 2014 05:00, Andy <luxinweiandy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to use TDMA options of FreeBSD on atheros chips, I found it works
> fine with point to point applications.
>
> But when I try to set tdmaslotcnt to bigger than 2, it give the following
> error message:
>
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
>
> Then I try to read man page of ifconfig to get some help, and it is said
> that current implementation of TDMA is only tested with two stations.But the
> value of the slot cout may be at most 8.
>
> So now the TDMA of FreeBSD only support point to point connection?
>
> How could I setup a TDMA network bigger than 2 nodes?
>
>
>
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