From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Shay Bar <Shay.Bar@celeno.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:18:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a7b33ace030fdeda96e60b2abd6c70a11f426e0.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0P192MB04682E48D814F5F6CAFBF9CAE79B0@AM0P192MB0468.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 14:14 +0000, Shay Bar wrote:
> > Hostapd normally handles that. Are we really so worried about it
> > crashing?
> > johannes
>
> Actually, it's not crashing but WIFI STA keeps sending unicast frames
> to AP such as RTS, BAR, NULL function (no data).
> This is what I want to avoid.
> Its just seems much more clever to let STA know we are down.
> don’t you agree?
We're doing that. More accurately, hostapd is doing that. So what's not
working for you?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-18 9:36 [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop Shay Bar
2020-06-18 13:47 ` Ben Greear
2020-06-18 13:48 ` Johannes Berg
2020-06-18 14:14 ` Shay Bar
2020-06-18 14:18 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2020-06-18 14:36 ` Shay Bar
2020-06-18 14:38 ` Johannes Berg
2020-06-18 14:45 ` Shay Bar
2020-06-18 14:48 ` Johannes Berg
2020-06-18 15:11 ` Shay Bar
2020-06-18 15:26 ` Ben Greear
2020-06-21 10:12 ` Shay Bar
2020-06-25 9:51 ` Johannes Berg
2020-06-25 10:29 ` Shay Bar
2020-07-30 14:00 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-30 14:23 ` Shay Bar
2020-07-30 14:28 ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-30 14:45 ` Shay Bar
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