adding a new station with hostapd_cli

[Dries Naudts]

On 17-nov-2011, at 14:30, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:38:52AM +0100, Dries Naudts wrote:
>> This is for a research project. The idea is that as soon as a STA associates with an AP, this AP notifies another AP (at that moment out of range for the STA) to also add the STA. I won't go into much detail, but the idea is to enable seamless mobility for the STA when moving between AP's.
> 
> OK. Is this with or without security?

Currently, no security is needed.

> 
>> Could this be extended for wireless network? Would it be straightforward to just add a call to the driver (via nl80211) in function "hostapd_ctrl_iface_new_sta" (ctrl_iface.c), or do you think there are any pitfalls?
> 
> Well, you could do that if you do not care about security implications.
> Though, you would need to transfer quite a bit more information than
> just the MAC address of the station (e.g., supported TX rates, etc.).

I managed to add a call to the driver (NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION ). The station is now added in the driver. Indeed, you need more than just the MAC address. For now, I use some default values for the other parameters. 

Thanks for your help!

Best regards, 
Dries


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