Re: Any reason AID is not in the NL80211_STA_INFO enumeration?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 02/28/2020 02:06 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 17:11 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>> To sniff /AX stations, it is helpful to know their AID.  So, any problems
>> with adding it to 'iw station dump' output?
>
> No, no problem at all. I guess it was just never added because it
> originally comes from userspace (hostapd), and so didn't really need to
> be sent back. But yeah, we have trivial infrastructure to send it back,
> so sure, why not.

Ok, thanks for the response.

 From looking at debugfs for a station device, there is the netdev AID:

cat /debug/ieee80211/wiphy0/netdev\:wlan0/aid
1

And there is a peer AID:

cat /debug/ieee80211/wiphy0/netdev\:wlan0/stations/04\:f0\:21\:c2\:fd\:b0/aid
0

For sniffing AX, I'd need to use '1' here as far as I can tell.  Maybe for station
devices the peer is always zero?  And for AP devices, the peer IDs are what is useful
and the netdev AID is not?


Thanks,
Ben

>
> johannes
>

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