[PATCH] supplicant: Allow ignoring specific mgt frame types.
Jouni Malinen
j at w1.fi
Sun Feb 5 11:45:01 PST 2017
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 06:21:20PM -0500, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
> Allow supplicant to specifically ignore some common management
> frame types. This gives more control than just randomly ignoring
> any of the auth frames.
>
> This adds support for ignoring assoc, deauth, eapol 1/4,
> eapol 3/4, and eapol 1/2 messages.
Same here.. External management and/or EAPOL frame processing can be
used for testing purposes to drop, delay, and modify frames with much
more flexibility. Adding a different mechanism for doing that is extra
complexity that does not look justifiable.
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