802.1x, HOSTAP, station association notifications

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Thu May 20 08:39:01 PDT 2004


On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:17 am, Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:20:27 +1000
> Phillip Crumpler <flip at ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > I need a neat and tidy way of notifying either a netgraph node or a
> > user process about associations.
>
> [..]
>
> You did search the archives, did you? ;-)
>
> Have a look at the following thread:
> http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?39FE23FA-7F75-11D8-8F99-000A95CDA38A
>
> I would *love* to see all interested parties come up with a
> unified way of doing this, and contribute it to FreeBSD.

I pointed him at the madwifi project on sourceforge.  It's a Linux port of the 
net80211 layer that now includes an 802.1x authenticator and soon will have 
WPA support too.  Backporting to FreeBSD should be straightforward.  For 
user-level notification I have some simple additions to kqueue to define new 
events equivalent to the Linux wireless extensions events (scan done, station 
associate, station deauth, station join, station leave).

	Sam


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