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

Shay Bar
2020-06-18T14:45:43Z

> So... why would you ever do that? :)
> johannes

:)
Is it illegal to do "ifconfig <if> down" or kill hostapd
while STA's are still associated?
There are some vendors/users that are doing that.

Regarding Ben's proposal of using 11k/v, I couldn’t find such
"going down" single frame in the standard (although sounds trivial)

Shay.
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