On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:08:29AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > Any AP with a hidden SSID will only respond to probe requests that specify > its SSID, and will ignore > any other probes. In addition, the response will have an empty SSID field. > These responses are the > only ones in which a substitution would occur. These are the same responses > where the current code > sends back the "<hidden>" pseudo-SSID. My change would put the correct one > there.
Is the SSID from the probe response really used here? Your patch did not look like that.. The SSID from the last scan request command may not be the one that triggered the last scan (e.g., one could request a new scan without specifying an SSID). > We aren't guessing. The response frame with the empty SSID field must have > come from the AP with the > SSID we want. Filling in the expected value is just making it easier for the > user-space tools. I don't see how the proposed patch would be using the correct SSID value in all cases. Especially cases where there are multiple APs using hidden SSIDs, but with different real SSID values and cases where multiple scan requests are being processed would be likely to leave windows open for reporting incorrect SSID. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
