Question on SIGHUP reload

[Jouni Malinen]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:38:20PM +0530, uday kiran wrote:
> When SIGHUP reload happens , all the stations are getting disconnected if
> no config is edited in the configuration file.
> 
> What is the justification for this behavior ? Does that mean , each and
> every configuration impacts the communication between station and AP ?

It is much simpler to just disconnect all stations than to try to verify
whether any of the configuration changes actually affects a specific
association station.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA