Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:49056 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752940AbZACW4k (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 17:56:40 -0500 Subject: Re: Invalid BSSID handling? From: Johannes Berg To: Alina Friedrichsen Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090103000028.302750@gmx.net> (sfid-20090103_010037_599013_5390FD9B) References: <20090103000028.302750@gmx.net> (sfid-20090103_010037_599013_5390FD9B) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BLzp51GvVK9pqEV5z0/P" Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:57:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1231023437.4629.1.camel@johannes> (sfid-20090103_235643_733661_82FF421F) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-BLzp51GvVK9pqEV5z0/P Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 01:00 +0100, Alina Friedrichsen wrote: > The madwifi accepts all BSSIDs except 00:00:00:00:00:00 and > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Should mac80211 allow all BSSIDs like madwifi, or > should it better treat multicast MAC addresses as 00:00:00:00:00:00, > or an other handling? Even though the standard asks you to use locally administered addresses for IBSS, I don't see this as a requirement since they just want to guarantee uniqueness and if you're assigning manually you rely on different methods for uniqueness. Cf. 7.1.3.3.3 in 802.11-2007 (which you can download for free) johannes --=-BLzp51GvVK9pqEV5z0/P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJX+1KAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYZ14P/39814cZvd9jyQdoQ47s6cYj 1xCWxfsMSfNaQeXRsGjamdK8Rbt/S5LLc+1iJwwS7toy4LzrlaLFVB+cG3Mu9bew s29gxRJndGR7OIReUU+c8uoXSr3bVN7BlL/jzTv/7dzq7xgmW+OS3aiHXzqHZZWx Gd/ZoGM464rJtzlkAZ5G4NYXjc2KVitjTCUHRM0LZRbqG8LVt/59f7QVCwnIo3QJ 1UYDGqPHtzcMQmr3TBC5pJ1w/Iu5JYdI8YV5gVl52UVni5quQWWz45qlOktvdh/c SqdDGV/sl6fGr4ZjUythvK8+3ElSSHj2Psx55Ri5pG1iKUmy3n2E0QPlL2IYtGe4 Wxdb09MdIzQEUK0Y4ocMOOEyq6aVZPlEA1VBw1oTQuBX/0y0MVrEHpT4lt7t6dvN kUXsr+1z+HBqgk050qEGxBZs8SvXW7b3l0E+DnYalv6A3wVjfsG5LoKmpiZNoUyY VL4A5BNUmuiVQU66o4drTUqVKAy3SwYueMk0Yecntm2Y+LlFJByQpYiB1r1ysIFx xgPVt6FwmsG5SqQ9/w5TwzLyGZWEjxDOSnhx3aJ7CfLEebhOi26ykBwjcehgGC/h OgYFu83hGu0bvwvHSYNKlzXIMZitykEdZplpANJ2PwhVU0rCIT1uQRQKmb8/gh4v Q23Budm+efYChuhqUfSz =iOeW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BLzp51GvVK9pqEV5z0/P--