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Re: privacy_invoked in AP interfaces?

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> > I was just testing hostapd and it told me:
> > Could not set PrivacyInvoked for interface wlan0
> > 
> > This is because we only allow setting that for STA interfaces, but what
> > should the setting do for AP interfaces? I don't see any point in it, is
> > there?
> 
> The only use for it in the AP mode is to support drivers (or well, more
> likely firmware designs) that insist on generating the Beacon (and Probe
> Response) frames themselves. I would be fine with net/mac80211 not
> supporting such designs, but it would probably be better to continue to
> support this in hostapd (and make it possible to do this with
> cfg/nl80211, too).

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

johannes

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