UPDATED: DoS on hostap

M. Grabert xam
Fri Apr 2 21:22:22 PST 2004


On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, M. Grabert wrote:

> The entries I see in my kernel logs (of the server) are actually in the form
>
>    "Could not find STA '00:01:XX:XX:XX:XX' for this TX error (@yyyyyyyy)"
>
> whereas the four 'XX' bytes are the first four bytes of the *servers* wlan
> MAC address (ie. as in XX:XX:XX:XX:xx:xx).

I forgot to mention that this is not only the (truncated) MAC adress of
wlan0, but also of br0 (the bridge has the same MAC address as wlan0).

Thanks,
  Max




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