On 06/10/2015 12:55 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:29 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > >> First, is this even a valid thing to do, or does VHT imply >> that stations are always available to do 80Mhz? > > According to the spec, a VHT STA must support 80 MHz: > > 802.11ac-2013, 22.1.1: > > A VHT STA shall support the following features: > [...] > - 20 MHz, 40 MHz, and 80 MHz channel widths > > Consequently, there's no bit indicating whether or not 80 MHz bandwidth > is supported (like there is, for VHT, indicating 40 MHz is supported or > not.) > > Also it is invalid to advertise a VHT capabilities IE and an HT > capabilities IE without 40 MHz.
Ok, thanks for that..one less piece of work for me to do :) >From what I can tell, it *IS* ok to have an AP do VHT on 40Mhz though? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
