From: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 08:21:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] set mcast_rate in mesh mode

The wpa_supplicant code for IBSS allows to set the mcast rate. It is
recommended to increase this value from 1 or 6 Mbit/s to something higher
when using a mesh protocol on top which uses the multicast packet loss as
indicator for the link quality.

This setting was unfortunately not applied for mesh mode. But it would be
beneficial when wpa_supplicant would behave similar to IBSS mode and set
this argument during mesh join like authsae already does. At least it is
helpful for companies/projects which are currently switching to 802.11s
(without mesh_fwding and with mesh_ttl set to 1) as replacement for IBSS
because newer drivers seem to support 802.11s but not IBSS anymore.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Tested-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@openmesh.com>

--- a/src/drivers/driver.h
+++ b/src/drivers/driver.h
@@ -1827,6 +1827,7 @@ struct wpa_driver_mesh_join_params {
 #define WPA_DRIVER_MESH_FLAG_AMPE	0x00000008
 	unsigned int flags;
 	bool handle_dfs;
+	int mcast_rate;
 };
 
 struct wpa_driver_set_key_params {
--- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
+++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
@@ -11667,6 +11667,18 @@ static int nl80211_put_mesh_id(struct nl
 }
 
 
+static int nl80211_put_mcast_rate(struct nl_msg *msg, int mcast_rate)
+{
+	if (mcast_rate > 0) {
+		wpa_printf(MSG_DEBUG, "  * mcast_rate=%.1f",
+			   (double)mcast_rate / 10);
+		return nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MCAST_RATE, mcast_rate);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
 static int nl80211_put_mesh_config(struct nl_msg *msg,
 				   struct wpa_driver_mesh_bss_params *params)
 {
@@ -11728,6 +11740,7 @@ static int nl80211_join_mesh(struct i802
 	    nl80211_put_basic_rates(msg, params->basic_rates) ||
 	    nl80211_put_mesh_id(msg, params->meshid, params->meshid_len) ||
 	    nl80211_put_beacon_int(msg, params->beacon_int) ||
+	    nl80211_put_mcast_rate(msg, params->mcast_rate) ||
 	    nl80211_put_dtim_period(msg, params->dtim_period))
 		goto fail;
 
--- a/wpa_supplicant/mesh.c
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/mesh.c
@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ int wpa_supplicant_join_mesh(struct wpa_
 
 	params->meshid = ssid->ssid;
 	params->meshid_len = ssid->ssid_len;
+	params->mcast_rate = ssid->mcast_rate;
 	ibss_mesh_setup_freq(wpa_s, ssid, &params->freq);
 	wpa_s->mesh_ht_enabled = !!params->freq.ht_enabled;
 	wpa_s->mesh_vht_enabled = !!params->freq.vht_enabled;