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

On 2020-05-17 07:08, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 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?
> 
IIUC HT/VHT operations are prohibited on 6 GHz band. no? Hence rejecting 
buggy
stations that announce HT/VHT capabilities on 6 GHz band. Do you prefer
to allow such stations?

> The HE capability check looks fine, but please split to a separate 
> patch
> without these HT/VHT checks.
> 
Sure.

-Rajkumar