CTS 308: Reduced Neighbor Report
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Jiri Brejcha joins us on this episode to discuss his testing of 6 GHz capable clients (iPad and Google Pixel) and how they discovery 6 GHz Wi-Fi networks. Jiri demonstrates how important the Reduced Neighbor Report plays an important role in 6 GHz AP discovery. Jiri is an enterprise architect at Cisco UK and part of the Cisco Live team. He’s also a core member of the WLAN Pi team. In his lab, he has a Cisco 6 GHz access point broadcasting a few SSIDs on different bands. He wondered how an iPad and Pixel will detect a 6 GHz-only SSID. Do you need to have APs operate on PSC only? Inside of a beacon frame, you’ll find a Reduced Neighbor Report (RNR) Information Element. The RNR contains important details such as the channel used by neighboring access points. This can be one access point or a group of access points. You’ll find this information in the Neighbor AP Information Fields Target Beacon Transmission Time (TBTT) 📄 Download 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz RNR, 6 GHz FILS, and 6 GHz unsolicited probe response pcaps from here:https://t.co/2p482EehID📄 Download WLAN Pi Profiler report and 5 GHz and 6 GHz association requests. We can see Pixel's capabilities in these frames:https://t.co/0fC5sITslr https://t.co/DRJDdPZwWX— Jiri Brejcha (@jiribrejcha) November 11, 2022 Resources * Section 9.4.2.170 of the 802.11-2020 standards * https://www.jiribrejcha.net/2022/11/google-pixel-6-wi-fi-6e-scanning-and-6-ghz-ssid-discovery/ * https://www.jiribrejcha.net/2022/11/ipad-pro-wi-fi-6e-scanning-and-6-ghz-ssid-discovery/ * Apple specifications: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202068
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