On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Bob Copeland via Devel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 02:40:27PM +0100, [email protected] via Devel > wrote: >> Why should you advertise the meshes SSID anyway? >> It will just add an extra questionable thing for the end user. > > From the original post: > >>> - The mesh peering can only happen if the mesh STA does >>> the active scanning by sending the probe request frame >>> with mesh ID matching the mesh ID configured by another >>> mesh STA. > > If anything, the end user needs to know even more to join a mesh in the hidden > ID case! > Yes, you are right, Bob.
If you configured your AP to hide the SSID, the device has to actively scan the specific SSID. If the AP broadcasts the SSID, a wildcard SSID (no specific SSID) is more than enough in the probe request frame. I have observed this in my nexus 4 with Android 4.4.4, not so sure others. ---- Chun-Yeow _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
