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Re: [PATCH 001/002] [MAC80211] Retry probe request few times

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2009/8/5 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 07:50 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>
>> My €0.02 (€ because I'm European :) ): Shouldn't probe requests be NO_ACK?
>
> Of course not. What makes you think so?
>
> johannes
>
>

It just feels illogical to me that the AP essentially has to respond
to probes twice (it sends an ACK, then a probe response) - but if that
is what the 802.11 spec calls for, then its fine.

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