Search Linux Wireless

RE: [PATCH] mac80211: fail back to use associate from reassociate

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:41 -0700, Sandesh Goel wrote:
> Therefore, the AP should not return the said error code
> (WLAN_STATUS_REASSOC_NO_ASSOC) unless it has checked (using some inter
> AP protocol) that no other AP in the ESS has an existing association
> with the requesting STA. If the AP is returning the error without
> doing this check, I would think that it is an AP bug. 

The AP was the only one in the ESS, so it should be OK.

> It would be interesting to know which AP behaves in this way and
> whether
> is really does the check correctly or not. Note that the AP itself
> having rebooted shouldn't cause this error code to be returned, which
> is what I found strange. 

Do you mean the AP should remember all its associated STAs before it
rebooted?

Thanks,
-yi
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux