From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
"hostap@lists.shmoo.com" <hostap@lists.shmoo.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: deauthentication and disassociation nl80211 commands
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:55:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091012065507.GB25578@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255191866.4095.32.camel@johannes.local>
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:24:26PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On the other hand, I think Jouni's argument is that you should be able
> to authenticate (force an auth frame exchange) even while authenticated.
> I don't really disagree with that all that much, but I'm not sure how to
> cleanly fit it in. mac80211 would have to reset the auth state without
> sending a deauth.
Yes, this is exactly what I would like to see happening when using
mac80211. For now, I think we can work around the issue in
wpa_supplicant, but eventually, this change in mac80211 would allow the
code in wpa_supplicant to be cleaned up and the need for an extra
deauthentication frame could be removed.
--
Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 2:11 deauthentication and disassociation nl80211 commands Maxim Levitsky
2009-10-10 3:45 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-10-10 16:04 ` John Klehm
2009-10-12 7:44 ` Holger Schurig
2009-10-10 16:24 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-12 6:55 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2009-10-16 9:36 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-12 6:52 ` Jouni Malinen
2009-10-15 11:45 ` Maxim Levitsky
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