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Old 06-15-2009   #1 (permalink)
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I'm doing wireless audits for my company, and one of our locations picked up a WAP that reported capability flags of 521...everything I've read has said that the 100 flag in hex (8th bit in binary) is "reserved". Anyone know what or why this flag would be set on a WAP?

The vendor code of the MAC address was 00180A, which belongs to Meraki Networks, who make enterprise level WAPs. Could it be a business-class indication? But why wouldn't it have been defined yet?
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I'm doing wireless audits for my company, and one of our locations picked up a WAP that reported capability flags of 521...everything I've read has said that the 100 flag in hex (8th bit in binary) is "reserved". Anyone know what or why this flag would be set on a WAP?

The vendor code of the MAC address was 00180A, which belongs to Meraki Networks, who make enterprise level WAPs. Could it be a business-class indication? But why wouldn't it have been defined yet?
It is (or was) reserved, but I've seen reserved flags get used before. Notably, 0400 went from reserved and became indicated of "802.11g" when that standard was ratified. For example, it may be that 0100 is now indicative of 802.11n. That's also not to say that a manufacturer just used it incorrectly or in violation of the standard for their own purposes.
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Thanks for the info, Thorn. I really was just wondering if anyone knew if it had been defined yet, since I haven't been able to find any open documents on 802.11n.

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Thanks for the info, Thorn. I really was just wondering if anyone knew if it had been defined yet, since I haven't been able to find any open documents on 802.11n.



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