Re: Adhoc networking, was Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

Johannes Berg
2009-11-17T07:38:07Z

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Please everyone in this thread, trim your quotes.

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 13:20 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:

> Yes.
> that is what the BSSID is - the definition of the basis service set. To
> use a particular BSSID is an implicit acceptance of the
> >>>> a)supported rates
> >>>> b)the value of X, the value of x
> >>>> c)the channel
> >>>> d)the ESSSID
> from an existing network.

No, point a) is incorrect -- it is the _basic_ rate set only, not the
entire rate set. Hence not knowing which rates a station actually
supports.

johannes

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