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Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] mac80211: add beacon filtering support

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:46:59PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> How does the hardware deal with IEs that may change order? I am not
> sure how common this is but I do wonder.

There are no such IEs; there is an explicit requirement for the order of
IEs in the Beacon frames. Or well, the last slot is for vendor specific
stuff, but anyway, I would agree with Johannes on someone changing the
order of IEs in Beacons to be quite idiotic.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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