From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Hin-Tak Leung" <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
"Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Steuerwald" <salsasepp@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing AP mode with WLAN-USB-Stick: How to obtain?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:36:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocsvswxa.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610192825.GA23353@jm.kir.nu> (Jouni Malinen's message of "Wed\, 10 Jun 2009 22\:28\:25 +0300")
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> writes:
>> Also deliberately breaking 802.11 specification sounds very wrong to me.
>> We can, and should, aim higher than that.
>
> Well, breaking specifications may have to be done in some cases ;-), but
> this particular feature is not really such a case.
Yes, you are correct (as usual). The specification is not perfect, far
from it :)
> However, I do understand the desire to be able to use some kind of AP
> mode even if it is known to be broken for some cases.
Actually what are the reasons why an user would prefer AP mode over
Ad-Hoc mode, if he doesn't care about power save? Better coverage
between clients and better encryption, but that's it. Right?
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-06-08 17:11 ` Testing AP mode with WLAN-USB-Stick: How to obtain? Stefan Steuerwald
2009-06-08 20:19 ` Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen
2009-06-08 23:59 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-09 11:26 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-10 3:18 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-10 7:30 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-10 11:31 ` John W. Linville
2009-06-10 19:19 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-10 19:28 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-06-10 19:36 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2009-06-10 19:40 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-10 19:58 ` John W. Linville
2009-06-10 19:55 ` John W. Linville
2009-06-10 13:39 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-10 15:22 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-10 15:49 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-10 15:51 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-10 19:28 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-11 3:08 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-06-11 3:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-11 9:59 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-11 14:42 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-09 8:19 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-06-09 9:16 ` Alexandre Becholey - s h o c k f i s h /
2009-06-11 14:58 Joerg Pommnitz
2009-06-11 15:06 ` Gábor Stefanik
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