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I stumbled upon this while trying to find/produce a current list of wireless drivers that support ‘auto’ as a distance value (#1231)
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* @NL80211_MESHCONF_NOLEARN: Try to avoid multi-hop path discovery (e.g.
* PREQ/PREP for HWMP) if the destination is a direct neighbor. Note that
* this might not be the optimal decision as a multi-hop route might be
* better. So if using this setting you will likely also want to disable
* dot11MeshForwarding and use another mesh routing protocol on top.
- introduced in iw https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/iw.git/commit/?id=94ded888ba696a1ec03571d596e96cf944ccc0c8
- from the commit message in the addition in Gluon freifunk-gluon/gluon@768172c (see also gluon-core: activate mesh_nolearn freifunk-gluon/gluon#3512 (comment))
We do not use the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of 802.11s and
set mesh_fwding=0 in gluon unconditionally.
In turn there is no use in discovering 802.11s mesh paths,
as there are no multi-hop mesh paths due to the lack of forwarding.While the router identifies this on its own after a few ms,
it is simply not necessary to waste resources on this discovery.
ilario
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