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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Shay Bar <shay.bar@celeno.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:47:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b76cea25-4fbc-9a95-743b-13443a6074a8@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618093609.16514-1-shay.bar@celeno.com>



On 06/18/2020 02:36 AM, Shay Bar wrote:
> In current code, AP is not informing STA when its going down.
> So STA keep looking the AP (Null function etc.) and can't find it (it is down).

Hello,

It will take a noticeable amount of time to send deauth to hundreds of stations
in cases where a busy AP goes down.  Is there any clever way to use something like
11k/v to send a single frame to let all stations know AP is going down?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18 13:47 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 [this message]
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
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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