From: Josef Miegl <josef@miegl.cz>
To: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@newmedia-net.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implementing Mikrotik IE
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:10:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190816111044.4ntizgmpa3twbzcg@pepin-laptop.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a079683-6f57-3b42-f909-90c46e14f14f@newmedia-net.de>
Hello,
setting vendor elements in hostapd works great - but I need to add these
custom elements to assoc/reassoc management frames in station mode.
Given that the vendor elements option in hostapd works great would it be
possible to patch wpa_supplicant for it to work in station mode too?
Does nl80211 allow setting NL80211_ATTR_IE for station mode management
frames?
Also what are the 'evil hacks' you are talking about?
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 06:07:02AM +0200, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> Hello
>
> Since i already have done this for dd-wrt for mac80211 i can tell you, its
> not easy but possible. the most easy way for broadcasting a custom IE
> is just adding a custom IE with its properties to the hostapd configuration.
> it does allow to set such properties
> so you dont need to change anything in mac80211 which requires some evil
> hacks
>
> Am 15.08.2019 um 17:28 schrieb Josef Miegl:
> > I've been trying to implement Mikrotik IE. It is a vendor IE that
> > carries stuff like radio name. Even though it is Mikrotik specific, UBNT
> > has a patch for madwifi:
> > https://github.com/jhairtt/ubnt-hal-0.7.379/blob/master/patches/madwifi-dfs-r3319-20080201/074-mtik-ie.patch
> >
> > The IE is sent in beacon and assoc/reassoc frames. I think the correct
> > place for this is mac80211, but I'm not sure how should I expose a
> > switch to this functionality. Is there something like ioctl, or do I have
> > to implement a switch in nl80211, then in cfg80211 and then finally in
> > mac80211?
> >
> > Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 15:28 Implementing Mikrotik IE Josef Miegl
2019-08-16 4:07 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-16 11:10 ` Josef Miegl [this message]
2019-08-16 11:15 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-16 11:38 ` Josef Miegl
2019-08-19 10:12 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-19 11:37 ` Josef Miegl
2019-08-19 20:21 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-21 20:04 ` Josef Miegl
2019-08-21 20:09 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-21 20:12 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-21 21:17 ` Josef Miegl
2019-08-22 7:00 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-22 20:08 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-22 21:06 ` Josef Miegl
2019-08-23 10:54 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-27 13:08 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-27 13:10 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-27 13:14 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-20 11:53 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-20 12:22 ` Johannes Berg
2019-08-20 12:46 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2019-08-21 21:19 ` Josef Miegl
[not found] ` <8ec8202e-ca07-3594-5873-5b282d553711@newmedia-net.de>
2019-08-21 23:57 ` Josef Miegl
2019-08-22 6:58 ` Johannes Berg
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