Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 1/5] nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASS

2009-12-16 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Lukáš Turek <8...@praha12.net> wrote: > The problem is, I don't know any hardware that really sends the coverage > class. There's a lot of hardware that allows setting only the ACK timeout, > like all the Ubiquity devices, Ovislink 5000 and so on. So the client > c

Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 1/5] nl80211: Add new WIPHY attribute COVERAGE_CLASS

2009-12-16 Thread Holger Schurig
> And if your IBSS and the AP already sent the coverage class > through the country IE I am not sure if we should allow > overriding it. Hmm, I think a local setting should override some broadcasted setting *IF* this cannot be used for some kind of denial-of-service-attack on links farther away