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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was curious if it is possible to make hostap
master mode only accept clients who are in client mode. I am assuming
this</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>would be a management frame workaround to
accomplish this.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I currently have a problem w/ overlap because we
only have a few channels in 2.4; we have repeaters associating with each
other</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as they are on autom_ap_wds 1 ( same essid );
we are in a situation where we need auto detect but need someway to identify
those in ap-client mode</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>( wds_type 2 ) from wds_type 4 so type 4 does not
associate. We get nasty bridge loops that kill the network. We use
directional antennas between</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the repeaters that lock onto a mac address for a
wds link so the network is not a mesh where all of them are on one
channel.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our current method was to simply keep a mac list on
a server that the machines can connect to and wrote a program to block the mac
once</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it was added as a wds device if it recieved a
response back. This auth hack is a big kludge and is not scalable nor
reliable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was hoping Jouni or anyone else could offer some
advice as to what part of the code we should look at modifying; or whether we
could use hostapd</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for this type of programming.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't want to keep track </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>of mac addresses for this problem; just have the repeaters that see each
other in the same mode not talk to each other. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any response would be appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brock</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>