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Re: [RFC] mac80211: New notification to discover mesh peer candidates.

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On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 10:56 -0800, Javier Cardona wrote:

> With this approach, when security is enabled, the decision to create
> the station is still made by the userspace daemon.  A normal sequence
> would be:
> 
> beacon is received
> mesh_matches_local is true
> no peer exists
> send NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE notification
> userspace creates unauthenticated station (optionally, to stop notifications)
> userspace authenticates station
> userspace sets authenticated flag
> 
> But alternatively userspace can create no station at all.  In that
> case a NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE notification is sent for every beacon
> received.

Ah, for some reason I thought mac80211 was now creating the
unauthenticated stations. I'll take another look.

johannes

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