RE: [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop

[Shay Bar <Shay.Bar@celeno.com>]

>> 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.

Maybe I was misunderstood, using _any_ one of the above methods
to down the interface, have the same result -
hostapd doesn’t send any deauth and STA's stay unaware of AP down.

Shay.
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