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Date:      Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:43:39 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kick mesh node
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Hi,

That sounds fine.

On 9 January 2012 09:09, Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I dont know if this is the correct way to do it.
>
> if you run "ifconfig wlan0 mac:kick address" you will get Invalid
> argument error because there is no code for MBSS.
>
> This is patch makes it possible to kick a mesh node, useful when for
> example you have some entries left "dead" in your table awaiting node
> reclaim timeout.
>
> Because there is no auth/assoc code for mesh I guess this is enough
> (maybe we can try to send CLOSE LINK to the entry we kick so that it
> updates its entries?):

That also sounds like a good idea for a future project.

I wonder if these ioctls should be broken out per-VAP..


Adrian



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