On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 01:00 +0100, Alina Friedrichsen wrote: > The madwifi accepts all BSSIDs except 00:00:00:00:00:00 and > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Should mac80211 allow all BSSIDs like madwifi, or > should it better treat multicast MAC addresses as 00:00:00:00:00:00, > or an other handling? Even though the standard asks you to use locally administered addresses for IBSS, I don't see this as a requirement since they just want to guarantee uniqueness and if you're assigning manually you rely on different methods for uniqueness. Cf. 7.1.3.3.3 in 802.11-2007 (which you can download for free) johannes
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