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From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:10:51 +0200 (EET)
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, ext Stuffed Crust wrote:

> You may hear another beacon when the STA is awake, you may not.  BSSID
> filtering has nothing to do with 802.11 power save, but rather is
> intented to reduce the host load (interrupts, processing overhead) and
> thus the host power consumption.
I know that and I know a bit about 802.11 PS as well.
I was talking about host powersaving, not 802.11. Sorry for the confusion.

What I meant is that having an 802.11 stack capable of living with less
than a beacon every couple of beacon intervals would be nice as well.

Cheers,
Samuel.