[174852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Fri Oct 3 17:04:59 2014
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:04:45 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:16:22 -0400, Nick Olsen <nick@flhsi.com> wrote:
> Side question for those smarter than I. How does WPA encryption play
> into this? Would a client associated to a WPA2 AP take a non-encrypted
> deauth appearing from the same BSSID?
It doesn't. The DEAUTH management frame is not encrypted and carries no
authentication. The 802.11 spec only requires a reason code be provided.
--Ricky
