On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:28:37AM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:

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What is the consequence if we don't handle this case? Is the peer
going to do the re-auth again?

Regards,
Chun-Yeow

It shouldn't be a big problem -- looking at 802.11-2012 figure 13-2:

Actually, thinking about it more, a worse case is if B reaches
ESTAB and then A reboots.  Now, A sends an Open, gets back
a Confirm that A will ignore (due to no plid).  A will still
timeout and send a Close frame to restart everything, but we
would have to wait quite a while to re-establish the peering.

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