Updating deny acl mac list during runtime

[Matteo Croce]

I did a patch to add s station to the deny list with a command BAN,
it's in the mailing list

2015-11-29 10:20 GMT+01:00 Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:50:15PM +0200, Eli Balta wrote:
>> I need to be able to dynamically add and remove hosts from the mac
>> filter list depending on various events.
>> What I'm doing right now is:
>> 1) add/remove mac entry in /etc/hostapd.deny
>> 2) send "SET deny_mac_file /etc/hostapd.deny" to the ctrl iface at
>> /var/run/hostapd/...
>>
>> The problem:
>> This works only for adding entries to the list, if I remove an entry
>> and send the "SET deny_mac_file /etc/hostapd.deny" command, it
>> succeeds, but the STA is still denied authentication whenever it tries
>> to connect.
>>
>> Is there any way to solve this problem without having to make
>> modifications to the code?
>
> If you do not want to stop and restart the BSS to do this, then probably
> not. There was a recent patch to add a new control interface command for
> adding MAC ACL entries and something similar would likely need to be
> added to remove MAC ACL entries to cover the case you describe here.
>
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