From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: No beacons generated when you bring ath9k AP interface down and up.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:12:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110114091226.GA32344@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2FF7A4.3070106@candelatech.com>
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:13:40PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> If you have an ath9k AP interface running with hostapd, and you
> run: ip link set vap0 down; ip link set vap0 up;
> then it will disable beaconing.
Yes. So what?
> I'm not sure where the problem actually lies: Should ath9k
> start beaconing automatically on VAP interface add? Is
> it up to hostapd to detect the ifdown/ifup and re-set everything
> up properly? Or maybe it's just a very bad idea to bounce
> a VAP interface with 'ip link set'?
I would say it is up to whoever decided to set the interface down to
restart hostapd.. There is a proposed patch for hostapd to do this
automatically, but I'm yet to fully understand why one would set the
interface down in the first place.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-14 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-14 7:13 No beacons generated when you bring ath9k AP interface down and up Ben Greear
2011-01-14 8:26 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-14 9:12 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2011-01-14 13:22 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-14 14:17 ` Brian Prodoehl
2011-01-14 13:49 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
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