> On Mon, 2017-10-30 at 17:29 -0700, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote: > > Update last_ack status for all except station probing frames (i.e null > > data). Otherwise the station inactivity duration is cleared whenever > > AP is checking presence of idle stations by sending null data frame > > for every inactive threshold (ap_max_inactivity). > > You make it sound like this is a problem, but don't explain why it would be? I > don't really see it anyway. > For steering an idle station from one BSS to another, the steering application has to know the actual station idle period. But if the idle period is cleared by ap_max_inactivity, the steering application cannot steer the station even though the station is not sending or receiving any data or mgmt. frame.
Though keeping longer idle threshold (ap_max_inactivity) than steering application limit may help to identify idle station, it will differ removing the stations that left BSS. -Rajkumar
