> First of all, isn't TEST\0\0\0 simply the wrong length anyway? > (that is, a length other than 32 is nonsense AFAIK) No, the SSID IE in a beacon encodes also a length. So the beacons from SSID of TEST, TEST\0 and TEST\0\0\0 are different. This is because in the beacon, the SSID is *NOT* an u8[32], but an IE, which is struct { u8 type, u8 length, u8 data[] }; -- http://www.holgerschurig.de -- 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