* privacy_invoked in AP interfaces?
@ 2007-12-12 9:53 Johannes Berg
2007-12-14 4:54 ` Jouni Malinen
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2007-12-12 9:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jouni Malinen; +Cc: linux-wireless
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Hi,
I was just testing hostapd and it told me:
Could not set PrivacyInvoked for interface wlan0
This is because we only allow setting that for STA interfaces, but what
should the setting do for AP interfaces? I don't see any point in it, is
there?
johannes
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* Re: privacy_invoked in AP interfaces?
2007-12-12 9:53 privacy_invoked in AP interfaces? Johannes Berg
@ 2007-12-14 4:54 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-12-14 12:14 ` Johannes Berg
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From: Jouni Malinen @ 2007-12-14 4:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Berg; +Cc: linux-wireless
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I was just testing hostapd and it told me:
> Could not set PrivacyInvoked for interface wlan0
>
> This is because we only allow setting that for STA interfaces, but what
> should the setting do for AP interfaces? I don't see any point in it, is
> there?
The only use for it in the AP mode is to support drivers (or well, more
likely firmware designs) that insist on generating the Beacon (and Probe
Response) frames themselves. I would be fine with net/mac80211 not
supporting such designs, but it would probably be better to continue to
support this in hostapd (and make it possible to do this with
cfg/nl80211, too).
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