On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:28 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > 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. Ok, good. I submitted the patch, maybe I should resubmit with this information, but I guess it doesn't matter much. The next question ends up being under which circumstances we should _send_ a unicast probe request. Currently, I don't think we ever do. johannes -- 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
