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On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 01:00 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > Right. If a particular chipset doesn't properly supported PS then we
> > shouldn't actually support it at all -- but we cannot know if the AP is
> > broken.
> 
> How about leaving it to the supplicant to guess if the AP is borked or not.
> 
> Kalle, what would happen with these broken APs?

We talked about that briefly yesterday -- it's not very easy to
determine this because of the various ways things break:

 * one AP sets the broadcast/multicast bit one beacon too late (after
   having already sent the frames)
 * one AP doesn't buffer frames at all
 * one AP doesn't respond to PS-poll frames

etc.

johannes

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