How to disable /b and /a/g rates?

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 21:05 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 12:52 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > On 03/10/2015 12:44 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 12:27 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Regardless of how good of an idea this is for real-world deployment,
> > >> would it actually be OK per the wifi spec to disable all basic rates?
> > > 
> > > You seem to be confusing a few things. You cannot "disable all basic
> > > rates", as the AP determines which rates are basic rates. Certainly, if
> > > the AP doesn't advertise a rate, then it can also not be marked as a
> > > basic rate.
> > 
> > I guess I mean that I would want only the HT rates to be the
> > basic rates..none of the /b/g/a rates...
> 
> Oh, so you want to basically support the legacy rates, but not mark them
> as basic rates? That might even work. But then you'd still not 'pure
> HT'.

Note that "basic rates" really just means "rate all clients have to
support". There's also an HT selector that you'd have to put into the
basic rates (the value 127 I believe, but there's a properly named
config) so that non-HT clients know not to connect to your AP.

johannes