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

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On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 13:29 +0300, Shay Bar wrote:
> On 25/06/2020 12:51, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > External Email
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 10:12 +0000, Shay Bar wrote:
> > > Hi Johannes and Ben,
> > > 
> > > To conclude this thread, hostapd doesn’t send any deauth/disassoc
> > > upon AP stop (when hostapd is killed _or_ when "ifconfig down" the
> > > AP interface).
> > 
> > Right. I'm sort of suggesting you just shouldn't be doing this, and it
> > doesn't seem like most people actually do, otherwise we'd have seen this
> > issue before?
> > 
> I shouldn't kill hostapd? Isn't this a very basic action?
> What is the alternative for stopping the AP?

I guess I would say to use hostapd_cli first to "disable" the
interfaces?

johannes




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