On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:57:17PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. For locally administered bit, I would agree, but I would still avoid using any multicast address as the BSSID. It could cause undesired behavior for RX filtering. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
