Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:16:06 +0200 (EET)
From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Reply-To: samuel.ortiz@nokia.com
To: "ext John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cc: ext Stuffed Crust <pizza@shaftnet.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration)
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, ext John W. Linville wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:51:31PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, ext Stuffed Crust wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:05:33PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> > > > Regarding 802.11d and regulatory domains, the stack should also be able to
> > > > stick to one regulatory domain if asked so by userspace, whatever the APs
> > > > around tell us.
> > >
> > > ...and in doing so, violate the local regulatory constraints.  :)
> > The other option is to conform to whatever the AP you associate with
> > advertises. In fact, this is how it should be done according to 802.11d.
> > Unfortunately, this doesn't ensure local regulatory constraints compliance
> > unless you expect each and every APs to do the Right Thing ;-)
>
> If regulators come down on someone, it seems like common sense
> that they would be more lenient on mobile stations complying with a
> misconfigured AP than they would be with a mobile station ignoring a
> properly configured AP?  I know expecting common sense from government
> regulators is optimistic, but still... :-)
Well, I'd rather trust a governement regulated network than my neighbour's
AP ;-) In fact, some phones set their 802.11 regulatory domain based on
the information they received from a somehow government regulated network,
e.g. a GSM one.

Cheers,
Samuel.
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