Question on 802.11r
Nicolas Cavallari
Nicolas.Cavallari
Tue Nov 12 03:50:43 PST 2013
On 12/11/2013 12:34, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Nicolas Cavallari
> <Nicolas.Cavallari at green-communications.fr> wrote:
>> See 802.11-2012 4.3.4.2. Roaming must be transparent to the LLC layer.
>
> Dont change the wording :-).
>
> "STAs within an ESS may communicate and mobile STAs *may* move from
> one BSS to another (within the same ESS) transparently to LLC."
>
> It doesnt mandate, but it allows.
Which proves my point: STA are not mandated to do or support L2 roaming, but they are
(always) allowed to do it. Your ESS must be able to handle them.
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