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John,

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:40 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:34:45AM -0500, pigiron wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 May 2010 09:29:18 -0700 Javier Cardona <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > I don't know about the router, nor if the IE ID clash is causing your
>> > problem, but moving the mesh codes somewhere else in the unassigned ID
>> > space would be a "A Good Thing To Do (tm)".
>
>> Really?
>>
>> Wouldn't that cause a problem for the kids running OLPC? For instance, where
>> some of the laptops are running an old level of code where WLAN_EID_MESH_ID=52
>> and others are running new code where WLAN_EID_MESH_ID=X.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the mesh done in OLPC is already incompatible w/
> 802.11s anyway.

Yes, the currently deployed laptops implement an earlier version of
the 802.11s draft that's not compatible with what's in the kernel now.

Javier


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