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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:02:19 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:24:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> I would expect equipment to honour the subset of configurations that
> meet BOTH the regulatory domain the system believes it exists within
> (which may change dynamically!) AND the AP advertisement.
> 
> If I have told my equipment to obey UK law I expect it to do so. If I
> hop on the train to France and forget to revise my configuration I'd
> prefer it also believed the APs

Yes, this is an excellent point.  I suppose this could result in
a non-functional configuration, but that is probably better than
conflicting w/ the local authorities... :-)

John
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