[RFC PATCH] hostap: suppress broadcast if no stations are associated

Pavel Roskin proski
Mon Apr 9 06:42:33 PDT 2007


This may be useful in mesh setups when most stations act as repeaters only.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c
index e741080..f369152 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c
@@ -2747,6 +2747,8 @@ ap_tx_ret hostap_handle_sta_tx(local_info_t *local, struct hostap_tx_data *tx)
 
 	if (hdr->addr1[0] & 0x01) {
 		/* broadcast/multicast frame - no AP related processing */
+		if (local->ap->num_sta <= 0)
+			ret = AP_TX_DROP;
 		goto out;
 	}
 

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin





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