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Re: [regression]AP with hostapd 0.7.3 can't receive packets beyond authentication (2.6.36, rt73usb)

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Am Mittwoch 03 November 2010 schrieb Johannes Stezenbach:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:50:07PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > 
> > While reading through the code I noticed the following in rt2800_config_intf():
> > 
> > 		rt2x00_set_field32(&reg, MAC_BSSID_DW1_BSS_ID_MASK, 3);
> > 
> > However, in Ralink source from http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
> > in DPO_RT3370_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.1_20100831/include/chip/rtmp_mac.h it says:
> >                 USHORT          BssIdMask:2; // 0: one BSSID, 10: 4 BSSID,  01: 2 BSSID , 11: 8BSSID
> > 
> > This is different from rt73usb where 3 means "one BSSID".
> 
> Any comments on this?

The BSSID mask in rt2800 is correct. Since we allow up to 8 AP mode interfaces
we really want to have a BSSID mask of 3.

Of course we could also create the BSSID mask dynamically but that would
complicate adding/removing interfaces. Thus we decided to stick with the
maximum value here.

Helmut
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