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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Cc: "devel@lists.open80211s.org" <devel@lists.open80211s.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: mesh_plink: handle confirm frames with new plid
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 11:10:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140703151034.GA10238@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140703142837.GA11380@localhost>

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:28:37AM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> > What is the consequence if we don't handle this case? Is the peer
> > going to do the re-auth again?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Chun-Yeow
> 
> It shouldn't be a big problem -- looking at 802.11-2012 figure 13-2:

Actually, thinking about it more, a worse case is if B reaches
ESTAB and then A reboots.  Now, A sends an Open, gets back
a Confirm that A will ignore (due to no plid).  A will still
timeout and send a Close frame to restart everything, but we
would have to wait quite a while to re-establish the peering.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-03 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1403987726-17576-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com>
2014-06-28 20:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: mesh_plink: handle confirm frames with new plid Bob Copeland
2014-07-03 12:36   ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2014-07-03 14:28     ` Bob Copeland
2014-07-03 15:10       ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2014-07-04  3:12         ` Yeoh Chun-Yeow
2014-07-24 10:58   ` Johannes Berg
     [not found] ` <1403987726-17576-2-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com>
2014-06-28 20:54   ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: mesh_plink: use get_unaligned_le16 instead of memcpy Bob Copeland
2014-07-24 10:59     ` Johannes Berg

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