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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Filter duplicate IE ids [corrupted beacons]

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Sam Leffler <sleffler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Paul Stewart <pstew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> If my over-the-air captures are any indication, with some probability
>> you will receive a corrupted beacon from time to time -- perhaps not
>> due to a broken AP, but just from it being corrupted over the air.
>> FCS could catch that most times, but perhaps sometimes not.
>
> I can't recall ever receiving a "corrupted frame" that passed FCS and
> wasn't delivered due to some driver/hw problem.

Fair point.  I still think flag clearing is still useful if the user
finally goes over and kicks the AP into working correctly again.

> -Sam
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