[PATCH 2/4] hostapd: add RSSI based association rejection support

[Otcheretianski, Andrei]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jouni Malinen [mailto:j at w1.fi]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 15:58
> To: Otcheretianski, Andrei <andrei.otcheretianski at intel.com>
> Cc: hostap at lists.infradead.org; Lev, Beni <beni.lev at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] hostapd: add RSSI based association rejection support
> 
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 07:43:53PM +0300, Andrei Otcheretianski wrote:
>

Hi Jouni,

> Making a decision to reject an association based on the RSSI of a single frame
> sounds like a bad idea to me. That value can vary a lot from frame to frame.. At

I totally agree with you :)
We mainly wanted to add the STA part to comply with the OCE spec,
the AP part is needed basically to support hwsim testing.

> minimum, I'd expect the AP to include the RSSI of the Authentication frame
> received just before this (Re)Association Request frame and reject the
> association only if both those frames show too low RSSI.

Sure, we will add this.
Though I'm not sure whether using 2 frames will improve this much - may be you want us to put this entire feature  under CONFIG_TESTING_OPTIONS for AP side?

Thanks,
Andrei
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