Re: AP Isolate Has No Effect

Thomas Pedersen <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:01:03 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.hostap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-06-17 23:00, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> On 2020-06-14 13:10, Hooman wrote:
>> I have created a WiFi hotspot using Ubuntu 20.04. Under the hood it 
>> uses
>> wpa_supplicant to create the AP. I'm trying to enable client 
>> isolation,
>> so that devices on the hotspot network cannot send packets to each
>> other. So once the hotspot is set up, I do the following:
>> 
>> #sudo wpa_cli -i wlan0
>> 
>>> set ap_isolate 1
>> OK
>>> get ap_isolate
>> 1
>> 
>> So I see that AP isolate is enabled. However, I still can send packets
>> from one device to another on the hotspot network. Why is that? Am I
>> missing something?
> 
> Are the AP and STA interfaces on a bridge with hairpinning enabled?

Sorry, obviously meant just the AP interface.

-- 
thomas

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