From: Stuffed Crust <pizza@shaftnet.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
jbenc@suse.cz, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
softmac-dev@sipsolutions.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [softmac-dev] [PATCH] ieee80211_rx_any: filter out packets, call ieee80211_rx or ieee80211_rx_mgt
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:44:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060125154402.GB9224@shaftnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138026752.3957.98.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:32:32PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Shouldn't you BSS-filter management packets too?
Filtering on BSSID is necessary for management frames, especially when
multicast management frames are thrown into the mix.
For example, STAs are supposed to respect broadcast disassoc/deauth
messages, but of course should ignore them if they're not destined for
the local BSSID.
The only extra-BSS management frames that should not be dropped are are
beacons and probe responses. That said, probe responses are directed so
our A1 (RA) filter will probably drop the frame if it is not destined
for us.
- Solomon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-25 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 20:06 wireless: the contenders John W. Linville
2006-01-18 20:19 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Michael Buesch
2006-01-18 20:25 ` John W. Linville
2006-01-18 20:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-18 20:48 ` John W. Linville
2006-01-18 20:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-19 0:19 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Johannes Berg
2006-01-19 15:27 ` John W. Linville
2006-01-22 11:57 ` [PATCH] trivial fix Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-22 11:59 ` [PATCH] ieee80211_rx_any: filter out packets, call ieee80211_rx or ieee80211_rx_mgt Denis Vlasenko
[not found] ` <200601221359.31482.vda-BN/BzeNzsW2SlH3FCl+8hg@public.gmane.org>
2006-01-22 12:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-22 12:25 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Michael Buesch
2006-01-22 12:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-22 13:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-01-23 14:32 ` [softmac-dev] " Johannes Berg
2006-01-23 19:00 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-01-24 8:06 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-25 15:44 ` Stuffed Crust [this message]
2006-01-26 10:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
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