802.11v time_zone

[Ann Lo]

Thanks Jouni. This is good to know.

I am running into 802.11v question because of a Netgear dongle
behavior. When I configure WPA2 personal on AP, the Netgear client
tends to connect and disconnect repeatedly. If I build hostapd using
CONFIG_WNM=y, and set time zone to UTC0 in configuration file, then
the Netgear client does not disconnect much. Since I do not enable
time advertisement, this could be just a co-incidence.

Thanks,
Ann

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:26:28PM -0800, Ann Lo wrote:
>> hostapd configuration file supports 802.11v time_zone. Do you know
>> what/how the time_zone of AP can be used by its clients if time
>> advertisement is disabled?
>
> hostapd does not include the Time Zone element if time advertisement is
> disabled, so no, this wouldn't be usable by clients in such a
> configuration. In general, I'm not sure which clients, if any, would
> ever use the time zone information here anyway taken into account it is
> not authenticated in any way.
>
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> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA