[PATCH 16/18] Interworking: make sure interworking is supported before sending ANQP

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Thu Sep 22 13:54:52 PDT 2016


On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:33:09PM +0300, andrei.otcheretianski at intel.com wrote:
> Check that AP supports interworking before sending ANQP query.
> While at it prevent sending GAS query to unknown BSSs.

Why? Are you sure this would not cause issues with deployed AP
implementations not advertising things in a manner expected by the IEEE
802.11 standard? For example, Wi-Fi P2P did not really talk much about
the Interworking capability bit while still using ANQP..

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