RE: [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop

Shay Bar
2020-06-18T14:14:40Z

> 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?
Once it receive this deauth, STA stop sending any frames to AP.
Shay.
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