Capwap Mailing List: Re: Issue 192: Only 15 WLAN IDs permitted in IEEE 802.11 binding spec

[Yong Zhang (yozhang]

This WLAN ID description has shown in several places in the bind doc.,
not just for the
6.1.  IEEE 802.11 Add WLAN.

Yong

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Pat Calhoun (pacalhou)
<pcalhoun [at] cisco.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Yong raised the following issue during the WG Last Call:
>
>    WLAN ID:   An 8-bit value specifying the WLAN Identifier.  The value
>         MUST be between one (1) and 15.
>
>    I saw that 0 is not allowed for WLAN ID. One physical radio can
>    support 16 WLANs. How to config the wlan 0? Or it does not need
>    to config?
>
> This is a valid point. I do not want to start using the value zero (0),
> because
> it was explicitely forbidden, and therefore propose changing the range
> from 1
> through 16. The new text would read:
>
> <proposed text>
> 6.1.  IEEE 802.11 Add WLAN
> [...]
>   WLAN ID:   An 8-bit value specifying the WLAN Identifier.  The value
>      MUST be between one (1) and 16.
> </proposed text>
>
> The same change was made to all other message elements that include the
> WLAN
> ID field.
>
> PatC
>