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Re: RFC: ieee80211: Spamming of log resulting from packets with ExtIV not set

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On 07-04-06 21:33 Jouni Malinen wrote:

> I would expect most wlan designs to do FCS error filtering in hardware,
> so this could be just lack of configuring something differently or
> dropping frames based on one of the RX flags. If the exact mechanism for
> this is not known, I would recommend validating FCS in software prior to
> processing the its contents (or trying to decrypt it for that matter).

Just for clarification: ZD1211 does the FCS check in hardware, but
reports the packet to the host with an error bit set, so the
driver needs to filter the packet out.

-- 
Uli Kunitz
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