Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f204.google.com ([209.85.222.204]:46644 "EHLO mail-pz0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756699Ab0EGQ3S convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 12:29:18 -0400 Received: by pzk42 with SMTP id 42so578709pzk.4 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 09:29:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100506215613.43477434@atom.pigiron.org> References: <20100505120131.2b9f4e06@atom.pigiron.org> <20100506215613.43477434@atom.pigiron.org> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 09:29:18 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The case of the bogus SSID From: Javier Cardona To: pigiron Cc: Steve deRosier , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, pigiron wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:12:15 -0700 Steve deRosier wrote: > >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM, pigiron wrote: >> > I noticed that decimal 52 is assigned to WLAN_EID_MESH_ID in the >> > ieee80211.h file, and recently the same 52 was also assigned to >> > WLAN_EID_NEIGHBOR_REPORT in the same enumerated ieee80211_eid{} structure. >> > >> >> I can't answer the rest of your question, but AFAIK, the element IDs >> for 802.11s mesh haven't been approved yet as the 802.11s draft >> contains a note to that effect. ?The current ANA database sheet I >> could find (Feb 2010) does have 52 assigned to Neighbor Report, and >> the mesh element IDs are nowhere to be found. >> > I agree. The 802.11k-2008 standard has already been approved with Element ID > 52 = Neighbor Report, so it's probably almost a guarantee that 802.11s won't be > assigning 52 to anything in the future. > > I'm kind of stuck on this problem. I could probably find out what's causing the > failure and create a patch... but the patch wouldn't be "The Right Thing To > Do(tm)" if the router isn't supposed to be spewing that data to begin with. I don't know about the router, nor if the IE ID clash is causing your problem, but moving the mesh codes somewhere else in the unassigned ID space would be a "A Good Thing To Do (tm)". Cheers, Javier