Access control list in hostapd
Jouni Malinen
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Wed Jul 30 05:22:29 PDT 2008
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0200, Sonia wrote:
> I'm using hostapd-0.5.8 with madwifi driver, and I'm
> trying to use accept and deny files in order to apply
> access control policies. But, it seems that no matter
> what I put in this files and macaddr_acl variable, all
> the clients can associate with the AP. Has anybody had
> the same problem?
macaddr_acl is only available with drivers that use hostapd for
management frame processing (e.g., Host AP driver or mac80211). It does
not work with madwifi.
> Besides, I would like to use this files to filter Wifi
> clients based on manufacturer, only taking into
> account the first part of the MAC address. Is it
> possible??
Not in the current implementation. In general, I don't see much point in
using MAC ACL since it is trivial to change the client MAC address and
this type of list does not provide any real security.
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