A way to force deassociation ?

Seng Oon Toh gte746m
Mon Nov 4 06:56:37 PST 2002


Try looking at hostapd.c

death_all_Sta

Seng Oon Toh
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: gte746m at prism.gatech.edu

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Dominique Blas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does someone know a smooth way to force deassociation on all associated
> stations ?
>
> By smooth I wnat to say without be compelled to unload hostap and reload it.
>
> I tried several ways :
> 	reset 0
> 	reset 1
> 	ifconfig down then up
>
> But either stations are still associated or the hostap is in a curious state
> (stations still associated but no more date throughput).
>
>
> The cleanest  way I've found is to unload hostap and then reload it, pass the
> different parameters, ifconfig the interface, stop and restart the different
> daemons bounded to the interface.
> I find this way too heavy.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions,
>
> db
>
> BTW , for those don"t know : changing the ESSID doesn't deassociate the
> already associated stations OK ?
>
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