[Cerowrt-devel] [Babel-users] [Make-wifi-fast] perverse powersave bug with sta/ap mode

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 5:04 PM, moeller0 <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 15:43 , Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>> Presumably the access point could transparently turn IP-level multicast
>> into a unicast frame to each associated station? Not sure how that would
>> work in an IBSS network, though... Does the driver (or mac80211 stack)
>> maintain a list of neighbours at the mac/phy level?
>
> I believe the openwrt developers are thinking a long similar lines, see e.g. https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-June/033398.html

Why not just sending IP multicast (not 802.11 management frames) with
a higher rate (lowest best linkspeed to all known neighbors)?

Henning Rogge