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On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 14:47 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> 1.  Make the directed probe mandatory:
>          a. Check for successful probe resp without depending on proberesp_ies.
>          b. remove the proberesp_ies from the auth_data to trigger
> directed probe.
> 
> 2. Timestamps for proberesp and beacons and update the latest one to "ies".
> 
> 3. while update "ies" check only for beacon as its supposed to have latest
> information (This will trigger #1 automatically).
> 
> As a quick and minimal impact solution i am thinking 1-b.

Huh? No, that'd be one of the worst possible solution IMHO since it
would make the system behave differently *all the time* just because of
a very uncommon scenario.

Is this really a "real world" use case? I can't really think of any way
this would happen in practice.

The least impact would probably have #2.

johannes