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Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:16:18 +0200
From: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>
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To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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Subject: Re: [rt2x00-users] [rt2800pci (AP) - ath9k] 802.11w: broken aggregation
 handling?
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Hello Jouni,

thanks for your response!

Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:02:58AM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>> - Why is the authentication started here at all, regardless of an error?
> 
> I don't think that hostapd would verify driver capabilities for 802.11w
> at the moment, so it does not know that it should have rejected the
> configuration here.. Same for wpa_supplicant and station mode, I'd
> guess.

Wouldn't it be better, if it would stop processing completely? I was
surprised to have a half working connection :-).

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Kind regards,
Andreas Hartmann