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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:05:56 -0700
From: "Javier Cardona" <javier@cozybit.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211 rx filter in mesh mode, rt2x00 mesh point operation
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Johannes,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> Javier,
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 15:07 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
>> Mesh frames have 4 addresses and no BSSID, so BSSID filtering should
>> be disabled (i.e. FIF_OTHER_BSS should be set).
>
> The BSSID is zeroed, right?

On data frames or multi-hop management frames there is no BSSID address.
On single-hop management frames the BSSID field is not used and set to
all zeros.

Cheers,

Javier