Re: [PATCH 7/9] AP: Reject association request upon invalid capabilities

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 03:45:40PM -0700, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> Reject association request from stations that announce HT/VHT
> capabilities in 6 GHz band. Also reject the stations that does
> not support HE in 6 GHz band.

Why would the AP explicitly need to check for HT/VHT capabilities on the
6 GHz band? Wouldn't it be sufficient and less likely to cause interop
issues by simply ignoring those unexpected HT/VHT IEs? Or is there some
clear requirement in the standard for the AP to do this type of
validation step?

The HE capability check looks fine, but please split to a separate patch
without these HT/VHT checks.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA