On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > The real question though is -- do we want/need this? I can only find > reference to this behaviour in the WMM spec. Yes, we do want and need it. Peer capability discovery in RSN IBSS depends on this (or a potentially long wait on receiving Beacon frame from the specific STA). IEEE 802.11REVmb clarifies the rules for IBSS in 10.4.4.3.2 which has the following statement on this: "A STA in an IBSS shall respond to Probe Request frames sent to the individual address of the STA." after the sentence that limits responding to just the STA that transmitted the last Beacon frame. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- 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
