Re: [8023-CMSG] Problem statement
One minor clarification to David's reply to Ben.
>> According to my (extremely limited) knowledge of 802.17,
>> these signals are used to tell the MAC Client that the
>> respective queues are full and cannot accept additional frames.
> A perhaps better way of thinking is the signal indicates
> whether the rate-limiting shapers indicate a frame can be sent.
> There is not necessarily a queue associated with the permissions,
> in concept, although there is most likely such a queue in reality.
There are no explicit queues within the MAC for storing client frames waiting to be transmitted, other than a one-entry staging buffer (at which point the frame is considered to have been transmitted).