[Bloat] sigcomm wifi

Steinar H. Gunderson sgunderson at bigfoot.com
Fri Aug 22 14:27:11 EDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 07:07:00PM +0200, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> How does that work in the light of STA MAC address randomisation during
> the scan stage? As I understand it, such STAs only use their "real" MAC
> address for actually connecting to the AP, but hide their identity in
> probe requests. So a dual-band AP can't rely on a STA's MAC address
> being the same in both bands.

No idea. On a guess, maybe they only randomize ever so often? Or maybe they
don't get band-selected.

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