On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 23:44 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > Well no it doesn't do that. But the FW takes some time to know its > authenticated. > The flow is this: > > 1. hostapd sends auth complete (the FW doesn't know anything about this) you mean assoc, right? > 2. The STA transmits something > 3. The AP FW deauths the STA > 4. hostapd adds the station, causing mac80211 to call add_sta(), which > causes the FW to add the sta > > Then we have an endless loop of sta add/remove.. I'd wondered about that race condition before -- maybe hostapd should add the station before sending the assoc complete. The race also exists in practice with just mac80211, except it only leads to a dropped frame. johannes -- 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
