.. and you'll be able to sense ACKs how? :-)

Adrian

On 29 February 2012 14:25, srinivas prasad <wasimpra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought that it will enable me to transmit without sensing the carrier. I
> am a bit new to this so maybe I interpreted it wrong. My aim is to induce
> overlaps as many overlaps as possible in our network in our experiments. I
> thought by physical carrier sense, i would be able to transmit without
> sensing the carrier.
>
> Thank you
> Srinivas
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Nick Kossifidis <mickfl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/2/29 srinivas prasad <wasimpra...@gmail.com>:
>> > Thanks for the reply. Just to make it clear, So are you saying that the
>> > patch is buggy?  I thought it is supposed to disable carrier sensing
>> > (physical and virtual) by turning on and off some flags.
>> >
>>
>> Define buggy. This patch disables carrier sensing on PHY by forcing
>> the RX_CLEAR signal to always be high (that means the PHY always
>> reports the channel as idle, e.g. allowing you to transmit all the way
>> ignoring any other users -some people use that for DoS
>> attacks/testing/research etc-) and virtual carrier sensing on MAC by
>> telling the PCU to ignore it. It does what's supposed to and as Felix
>> told you it effectively kills RX (until you switch them back on).
>>
>> What did you expect from such a patch/approach ?
>>
>> --
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>> As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-)
>> Nick
>
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