Re: A station can't reconnect after it wakes up

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 15:50 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> Taken into account that the AP can even change the Association ID for
> the STA during reassociation, I would be fine with dropping the buffered
> frames and clearing the PS state when association is completed
> successfully (the STA ACKs the (Re)Association Response frame that had
> status code 0). I would hope that the authentication frame sequence or
> failed (re)association would not touch the PS buffer or state.
> 
> The real time when the association state changes in the AP is when the
> ACK frame is received for (Re)Association Response frame. Of the options
> you listed, this would be bit after (B), i.e., (C) might be needed to
> get the exact timing right. However, I could probably live with (B),
> too, in practice.



> > But I think, we shouldn't call ap_sta_ps_end as is done for normal PS
> > state switching, because that leads to sending buffered frames if any,
> > which is undesirable in our case. Instead, we should simply purge of
> > buffered frames and clear WLAN_STA_PS.
> 
> This is a very good point and we much indeed make sure we do not end up
> sending the buffered frames out based on a new authentication or
> association frame. This is especially important for the case when the
> frames were buffered in RSNA,

Given all this, I still think it would be a lot simpler to just have
hostapd remove the station once.

johannes

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