[OpenWrt-Devel] mac80211/DFS-support default since r42431

Felix Fietkau nbd at openwrt.org
Mon Sep 8 03:19:10 EDT 2014


On 2014-09-08 08:52, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
> with r42431 DFS is enabled by default[1]:
> 
> "mac80211: enable DFS support for ath9k/10k by default The DFS pattern
> detector now supports all three regions; ETSI, FCC and JP, so there is
> no reason to not have it enabled anymore."
> 
> there was a long discussion on battlemesh/Leipzig[2] that this
> is from a security point of view a difficult thing - because everybody
> can take down a complete city-network.
I've never heard this claim before. How does enabling this option allow
people to take down a network?

- Felix
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