On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:30:43PM +0000, Wojciech Żyszczyński wrote: > I am running hostapd 2.6 on centos 7. I start it and the SSID is being > broadcasted. > What puzzles me, if I terminate the hostapd process with CTRL+C in the > console, the SSID is still being broadcasted. Which driver and Wi-Fi hardware are you using? > The zombie SSID is visible in the scan results and connection can be > attempted. It always fails though. > My guess is that 'hostapd does not shutdown the Access Point at the > wifi driver level'. hostapd does stop the AP when allowed to do so.. Ctrl-C in general should allow this (while SIGKILL would not). Can you share a hostapd debug log (-dd on command line) from an example where the beacon frames continued to be transmitted after Ctrl-C? -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap