Management of multiple basic service set identifier (mbssid) groups for beacon protection

An Access Point (AP) comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing executable instructions;
• and
• a processing resource coupled to the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and configured to execute one or more of the instructions to:
• detecting a new Virtual Access Point (VAP) entry comprising a configuration corresponding to a target VAP indicating creation of the target VAP for a radio, wherein the configuration comprises information about a first group management cipher suite corresponding to the target VAP, and wherein the radio is configured with a plurality of Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier (MBSSID) groups;
• fetching the configuration responsive to detecting the new VAP entry;
• determine whether the first group management cipher suite matches with a group management cipher suite corresponding to one of a plurality of transmitting VAPs of the plurality of MBSSID groups;
• create an additional MBSSID group for the target VAP in response to determining that the first group management cipher suite does not match the group management cipher suite corresponding to any of the plurality of transmitting VAPs;
• configure the target VAP as a transmitting VAP for the additional MBSSID group;
• and
• transmit a beacon comprising security information corresponding to the first group management cipher suite.

An Access Point (AP) comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing executable instructions;
• and
• a processing resource coupled to the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and configured to execute one or more of the instructions to:
• determine that a configuration of a target Virtual Access Point (VAP) corresponding to a radio is updated to replace a first group management cipher suite previously assigned to the target VAP with a second group management cipher suite different from the first group management cipher suite, wherein the radio is configured with a plurality of Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier (MBSSID) groups;
• responsive to determining that the configuration of the target VAP has been updated, determine whether the second group management cipher suite matches with a group management cipher suite corresponding to one of a plurality of transmitting VAPs of the plurality of MBSSID groups in response to determining that the configuration of the target VAP has been updated;
• create an additional MBSSID group for the target VAP in response to determining that the second group management cipher suite does not match the group management cipher suite corresponding to any of the plurality of transmitting VAPs;
• and
• configure the target VAP as a transmitting VAP for the additional MBSSID group.