[PATCH 2/3] mesh: Add an option to configure SAE Anti-Clogging Threshold

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Tue Oct 7 01:34:47 PDT 2025


On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 05:31:39PM +0200, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> In dense mesh networks, the threshold can be quickly reached if many
> nodes start at the same time.
> 
> Allow the user to configure it so that it does not trigger if there is
> no attack.
> 
> The configuration is not applied when wpa_supplicant is used to create
> an access point instead of a mesh.

Why would this be limited to such mesh and not used for AP mode? It
would be quite misleading to have the configuration parameter available
for AP mode configuration with the same name as the one used in hostapd
and then have wpa_supplicant just ignore it.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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