MFP Experiences?

I'm wondering how people's experiences have been with MFP, after enabling it on the wireless controllers. How well does/did it work, has it caused any problems? (And what controller version were you running at the time?) I have Intel 2200BG and 3945ABG clients (running WPA + TKIP), and I'm wondering if MFP could cause more problems than it's worth.

We had some significant issues with MFP with Intel clients. We did not track down the root cause, but disabling it seemed to remove many issues. I decided I would hold off re-enabling it for the time being.
If I remember correctly, the Intel was receiving a de-auth frame that it considered invalid because of MFP. This frame caused some versions of the Intel driver to wedge, and we had to disable/enable the nic to re-gain wireless access.
There is also limited benefits to MFP until more clients actually support it fully, so I think it will be more practical in a year or two. However, I would be curious as well to hear other feedback.
-Eric
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Hi FrancescoPromo,
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Hello,
I'm going to keep this short and simple.
We are/were hp partners once, I bought myself a HP Laserjet 100 color MFP M175nw at Staples in Belgium (Staples is bankrupt meanwhile - a pity for their employees)
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