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 16:48:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6da8757ac90a4d34ed1bdc7c84b40aac06c01af9.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0P192MB046896A59F91F976EE7AB287E79B0@AM0P192MB0468.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 14:45 +0000, Shay Bar wrote:
> > 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.
It's not really *illegal* per se, but it would be weird if both did it
... But I do tend to think that if you're using hostapd or such to
control it, you shouldn't do another out-of-band control.
> Regarding Ben's proposal of using 11k/v, I couldn’t find such
> "going down" single frame in the standard (although sounds trivial)
Broadcast deauth :)
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 14:48 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
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 [this message]
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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