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Re: [802.1] RE: [LinkSec] 802.11 architecture and pre-auth paper




IEEE 802.11 will not be able to answer this question because no AP 
architecture has been defined.  It is left as an exercise to the 
implementer, and various implementations have done it differently.

Floyd

Bernard Aboba wrote:

>
>>   It is not made clear in the document how an AP that has a single 
>> MAC entity
>>   for both the WM and DS will operate?  If a frame is delivered to the
>>   single MAC entity how is it processed?   Where is the relay agent 
>> (or is there
>>   none)?
>
>
> I would recommend that you ask these questions on the IEEE 802.11 list 
> rather than on this one, since they relate to the 802.11 architecture.
>
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