Re: Setup help request

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

Hi James,

> 
> I'll need to look more at the spec to determine if this is "illegal" (for lack 
> of a better term) to duplicate these IEs. There are some IEs that we allow 
> duplicates of (which you can see in that patch). With a simple search I cant 
> find anything in the spec that disallows duplicates specifically, but we have 
> this comment in IWD:
> 
> "Tag found, make sure no duplicates present unless allowed"
> 
> Denis, any idea where that comes from off the top of your head?

802.11 allows some IEs to be duplicated.  For example, see verbiage in 
802.11-2020 Section 9.3.2 dealing with Beacons:

"One or more Multiple BSSID elements are present if"...
"One or more Emergency Alert Identifier elements are present if"...
"One or more Emergency Alert Identifier elements are present if"...
"One or more Vendor Specific elements are optionally present. These..."

Regards,
-Denis