From: Shay Bar <Shay.Bar@celeno.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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 14:14:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0P192MB04682E48D814F5F6CAFBF9CAE79B0@AM0P192MB0468.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d57c8bf64d6ea2e3f7355c2f7ca9b376db7fe21c.camel@sipsolutions.net>
> Hostapd normally handles that. Are we really so worried about it
> crashing?
> johannes
Actually, it's not crashing but WIFI STA keeps sending unicast frames
to AP such as RTS, BAR, NULL function (no data).
This is what I want to avoid.
Its just seems much more clever to let STA know we are down.
don’t you agree?
Once it receive this deauth, STA stop sending any frames to AP.
Shay.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 14:14 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 [this message]
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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