On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 21:19 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 05:18:55PM +0800, Ryder Lee wrote: > > Enhance the possible values for he_bss_color. Anything greater than > > 63 will > > make hostapd choose a random color. > > What's the use case for this? Isn't the initial BSS color supposed to > be > selected based on what BSS colors are in use by neighboring OBSSs > (see > IEEE Std 802.11ax-2021, 26.17.3.2)? > > If that more complete implementation looking at neighboring OBSSs is > not > added, would the automatic initialization to a random value be > sufficient for now? > https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/src?id=41ec97cd09486a6bda21f5f5b89e5242e6ade2a2 > > > -# he_bss_color: BSS color (1-63) > > +# he_bss_color: > > +# 0 = disable > > +# 1-63 = pre-defined color > > +# 64+ = random color > > #he_bss_color=1 > > Is it really expected to be possible to configure the BSS color to be > hardcoded to be disabled? In addition, that use of multiple different > values to indicate a random color feels quite strange. > Agree. I will drop this one. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
