On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:08:50AM -0700, Aloka Dixit wrote: > On 4/7/2022 1:48 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > 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. That does not sound like the best approach to address that. It would seem simpler to reject the MBSSID configuration if it tries to use a hidden SSID. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
