gmane.network.nocat http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.nocat hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 Gmane http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org about 802.11 scan and probe request http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.nocat/1941 <pre>dear all, is there anyone who read the standard "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications" ? and i spend two month to read the stardard, and i read a few code of wpa_suppliant and wpa_gui,there is one question: the scan have two mode:active or passive,but when i run the wpa_gui, there is only scan button, in the standard the scan request is like MLME-SCAN.request ( BSSType, BSSID, SSID, ScanType, ProbeDelay, ChannelList, MinChannelTime, MaxChannelTime ) but there are only three MAC frame formats:data frame, control frame and Management frame, and there is no scan frame, there is only a Probe Request frame, so i am stumped, what's the relationship between MLME-SCAN.request and Probe Request frame, is the MLME-SCAN.request and Probe Request frame only in different layer? but the items is also different, th</pre> belle.shi< at >yy.com 2009-10-26T02:49:20 Search Engine Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.network.nocat