Disconnect P2P client from P2P Group

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Nov 11 09:19:11 EST 2012


On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:50:50PM +0530, Nishant Sharma wrote:
>                As per my understanding currently, same PSK is being shared
> for all the clients of the same GO. Your suggestion is to have one PSK per
> client. But my requirement is  to disconnect a particular client form GO.
> Can I achieve this from following steps:
> 1. Adding a new command for client disconnect in interface.
> 2. this disconnect command will send a disassociation frame to that client.
> 3. Remove client from peer list and clean up all the client resources from
> supplicant of GO.

That will not prevent the disconnected peer from connecting again since
it knows the PSK. Per-device PSK needs to be used to allow this
operation to be done securely.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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