On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 11:40 -0800, Javier Cardona wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a more generic question since I haven't seen the userspace bits: > There's a working prototype here: > https://github.com/cozybit/authsae/blob/master/linux/meshd-nl80211.c > The intent is to merge that functionality into wpa_supplicant at some point. > > > How does userspace know when to authenticate with a new peer? > Authentication is triggered by the reception of a beacon or presp from > a compatible mesh peer with security enabled. Ok ... so I read from this that it actually parses out the beacon frames from scan results? It seems that it should rather signal beacon frames for unknown peers to userspace somehow, so userspace doesn't have to poll scan results? 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
