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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 01:39 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> > 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
>>
>> It sounds like all 3 things can be tested for.
>
> Yes, but how complicated does it get, and is it worth it to invest that
> much work for these (hopefully few) ancient APs?

Might be a good set of tests to have for the testing GSoC, anyway,
against AP mode.

  Luis
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