From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3305678549132832889==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: James Prestwood Subject: [PATCH v2 6/7] doc: document new [General].4WayOffload Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:48:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20210330184808.744574-6-prestwoj@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210330184808.744574-1-prestwoj@gmail.com> List-Id: To: iwd@lists.01.org --===============3305678549132832889== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This option will allow the 4-way handshake to be offloaded to firmware if it supports it. --- src/iwd.config.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/iwd.config.rst b/src/iwd.config.rst index 478bd616..e2060312 100644 --- a/src/iwd.config.rst +++ b/src/iwd.config.rst @@ -174,6 +174,20 @@ The group ``[General]`` contains general settings. off by default. If you want to easily utilize Hotspot 2.0 networks, then setting ``DisableANQP`` to ``false`` is recommended. = + * - 4WayOffload + - Values: **false**, true + + Enables the use of 4-way handshake offloading. Some drivers can off= load + the 4-way handshake to firmware which is needed for protocols which + act on Authenticate/Associate frames such as Fast Transition. This + option is turned off by default as it is not widely tested. + + Note: There seems to be a bug in the brcmfmac driver/firmware where= once + offloading is enabled (by turning on this option) it cannot be turn= ed + off in the firmware without a hard reboot (or some means of restart= ing + the firmware). + + Network --------- = -- = 2.26.2 --===============3305678549132832889==--