Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 08:36:31 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.1x, HOSTAP, station association notifications Message-ID: <200405200836.31526.sam@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20040520111752.10417492@localhost> References: <40AC07DB.10509@ecr.mu.oz.au> <20040520111752.10417492@localhost>
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:17 am, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:20:27 +1000 > Phillip Crumpler <flip@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote: > > [..] > > > I need a neat and tidy way of notifying either a netgraph node or a > > user process about associations. > > [..] > > You did search the archives, did you? ;-) > > Have a look at the following thread: > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?39FE23FA-7F75-11D8-8F99-000A95CDA38A > > I would *love* to see all interested parties come up with a > unified way of doing this, and contribute it to FreeBSD. I pointed him at the madwifi project on sourceforge. It's a Linux port of the net80211 layer that now includes an 802.1x authenticator and soon will have WPA support too. Backporting to FreeBSD should be straightforward. For user-level notification I have some simple additions to kqueue to define new events equivalent to the Linux wireless extensions events (scan done, station associate, station deauth, station join, station leave). Sam
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