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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Send deauth to STA's upon AP stop
To:     Shay Bar <shay.bar@celeno.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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From:   Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Date:   Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:47:22 -0700
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On 06/18/2020 02:36 AM, Shay Bar wrote:
> In current code, AP is not informing STA when its going down.
> So STA keep looking the AP (Null function etc.) and can't find it (it is down).

Hello,

It will take a noticeable amount of time to send deauth to hundreds of stations
in cases where a busy AP goes down.  Is there any clever way to use something like
11k/v to send a single frame to let all stations know AP is going down?

Thanks,
Ben

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