This is very helpful information. Thanks, Ann On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/28/2016 10:43 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 06:42:15AM -0700, Ann Lo wrote: >>> >>> We are hoping to limit our wpa_supplicant to get connections with 20 >>> MHz channel width only. Is it adequate to set "ht40_intolerant=1"? >>> Usually 40 MHz intolerance is used on 2.4 GHz band. Can we use it for >>> 5 GHz band? >> >> >> ht40_intolerant=1 does not prevent use of 40 MHz by the local device.. >> It is trying to make everyone in range not use 40 MHz on 2.4 GHz.. >> disable_ht40=1 might work for this, if I understood what you are trying >> to do correctly. >> > > In case the desire is to have a VHT-20 station on a VHT80 AP, I am not > sure it can be done. disable-ht40 might allow you to have an HT-20 station > on VHT80 AP. > > From what I recall, there is no way to advertise a VHT-20 station since the > spec does not allow for a VHT station that cannot do VHT-80. > > At least with some driver hacking and proper firmware, it would be possible > to > disable all 40 and 80Mhz rates, so the station would always transmit 20Mhz > rates, but it would still be receiving up to 80Mhz wide packets... > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
