On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 12:01 -0800, Javier Cardona wrote: > >> > 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? > > Discovery (and much more) on that prototype can certainly be improved. > Not sure what you mean from "signal beacon frames > for unknown peers" but yes, the current polled approach is probably > not what we want. The mesh stack should trigger an event when a mesh > beacon is received from a station that has not been created. Right. But in any case, the secure flag doesn't really need to mean "secure", it can simply mean "userspace manages stations". I was thinking first that maybe there's something else that triggers this in a secure case, but of course that can't be true since it's symmetric. Therefore, I think we should allow userspace the flexibility to say it manages stations even when the RSN information isn't there, no? 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
