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Re: Cisco's Wi-Fi Direct Client Policy and iwlwifi (8260)

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On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 20:16 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> 
> I have heard about this before.  The issue is that the Cisco AP
> doesn't allow the 8260 to connect because it has the P2P IE in
> it.  But AFAICT it is not against any specs to include this IE.  The
> Cisco AP is using the IE as an indication that we are trying to
> connect as a P2P device, which in this case we are not.

I believe that this is technically incorrect: they're assuming that
because P2P IEs are included, the device is P2P *capable* - completely
unrelated to connecting as a P2P-client (vs. a regular BSS client).

Because the device is P2P capable, there's a policy decision in the
configuration to not allow these clients to connect. This is actually
described in sections 3.4.3/3.4.4 of the P2P spec, and we should
probably implement the recommendations there?

johannes



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