From belle.shi at yy.com  Sun Oct 25 19:49:20 2009
From: belle.shi at yy.com (belle.shi at yy.com)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:49:20 +0800
Subject: [NoCat] about 802.11 scan and probe request
Message-ID: <20091026104920.k24xib5kaoggcgoc@webmail.yy.com>

dear all,
  is there anyone who read the standard "Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium
Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications" ?
  and i spend two month to read the stardard, and i read a few code of 
wpa_suppliant and
wpa_gui,there is one question: the scan have two mode:active or 
passive,but when i run
the wpa_gui, there is only scan button, in the standard the scan 
request is like
MLME-SCAN.request (
                BSSType,
                BSSID,
                SSID,
                ScanType,
                ProbeDelay,
                ChannelList,
                MinChannelTime,
                MaxChannelTime
                )
but there are only three MAC frame formats:data frame, control frame 
and Management
frame, and there is no scan frame, there is only a Probe Request frame, 
    so i am
stumped, what's the relationship between MLME-SCAN.request and Probe 
Request frame, is
the MLME-SCAN.request and Probe Request frame only in different layer? 
but the items is
also different, the MLME-SCAN.request have:(
BSSType, BSSID, SSID,  ScanType, ProbeDelay,  ChannelList,  
MinChannelTime,   MaxChannelTime), but the  Probe Request frame body 
only have two parts:  SSID
and Supported rates.     and in my view, i think the active scan is to 
send Probe Request
frame, and the passive scan to receive the beacon frame, is it right?
   thanks very much for advance!!