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Re: [PATCH 3/4] o80211s: (mac80211s) basic mesh interface support

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On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 01:13 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Btw. I just reviewed draft 1.0 (currently have no access to later ones)
> and it talks a lot about probe responses but never when to send them. Is
> this clarified later and should it be implemented here? Or is that part
> of the "mesh AP" stuff that is removed?

Probe responses are sent as usual (in response of a probe request :-) )
Either beacons or probes request/responses are needed to detect
neighbors and then start the peer link establishment protocol. So yes,
probe responses should and will be implemented, even though it would
possible to operate just with beacons.

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Luis Carlos Cobo Rus       GnuPG ID: 44019B60
cozybit Inc.


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