Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:45 am
Let's say I have an AP and a station. If the AP assigns slave interfaces based on each station, using the MAC to differentiate between them, then the AP will make a new interface for each MAC it sees. The script on the station changes its MAC to some random value every time it connects. The AP, thinking it's a new station, creates a totally new interface just for it. However, the station disconnects and changes its MAC again and the cycle continues until memory runs out on the AP and you're left with maybe hundreds of useless slave interfaces.