From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: reply to directed probes in IBSS
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:31:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297686694.3785.40.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110214122818.GA6712@jm.kir.nu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-14 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 12:49 [RFC] mac80211: reply to directed probes in IBSS Johannes Berg
2011-02-08 11:11 ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-02-14 10:12 ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-14 10:28 ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-02-14 10:48 ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-02-14 12:28 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-02-14 12:31 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-02-14 13:38 ` Jouni Malinen
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