On 4/7/2022 1:48 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 02:26:32PM -0800, Aloka Dixit wrote:
Hidden nontransmitted BSSID profiles will be included in the beacons
and probe responses but SSID value will be removed or set to all
zeros depending on the configured value of 'ignore_broadcast_ssid'.
If complete profiles are omitted, clients cannot stay connected to
the AP.
For unicast probe requests with SSID set to a hidden nontransmitted
BSS, complete SSID should be included in the response.
Do we really need this functionality with MBSSID? Hidden SSID is not
compliant with the IEEE 802.11 standard, does not provide any real
security, causes issues for stations, and should not really have been
ever deployed in the first place.
For now, I need to add the support for MBSSID case as well because we
don't want the configuration ignored if it is set in the user config.
If we do remove the whole functionality in future, then MBSSID part can
be removed at the same time.
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