Re: [PATCH] hostapd: send own Neighbor Report only if specific Measurement Request

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Hi David,
On 29/05/2025 13:00, David Bauer wrote:
Hi Pablo,

On 5/21/25 18:06, Pablo MARTIN-GOMEZ wrote:
Every Neighbor Report that matches the requested SSID is sent in the
Neighbor Report Response, including our own report. According to standard
IEEE 802.11-2020 (11.10.10.3), the self report should not be included in
the response unless the request includes a LCI Measurement Request or a
Location Civic Measurement Request.

I read the standard as a "can not have" not a "should not"

[...] then the AP shall include a Neighbor Report element for the AP’s
own BSSID in the Neighbor Report Response frame [...]

I think the change is correct and should be applied, I'm just a bit
confused with the description.

If i missed the part where it stated "should not contain", please
correct me.

To be honest, I find the standard to be unclear on that point. It's clear when the self Neighbor Report has to be included but outside of those conditions, the standard has no "shall not include" so I sort of deduced from the "spirit" of the standard that the self Neighbor Report is not expected to be included otherwise .

One could even claim that:

> NOTE—The Neighbor Report Response frame includes a list of Neighbor Report elements one for each neighbor. The > criteria for the selection of an AP as a neighbor AP is beyond the scope of this specification.

can be interpreted as an implementer is free to consider an AP as its own neighbor AP and therefor send a self Neighbor Report by default. So I'm not even sure about the "spirit" of the standard.


Best
David

Best regards,

Pablo


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