On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 23:17 +0200, Josef Miegl wrote: > On August 21, 2019 10:12:26 PM GMT+02:00, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What AP are you trying to connect to? Have you tried adding some other > > random vendor IE, with an OUI that the AP is almost certain to not > > know? > > Maybe it's actually interpreting this somehow? > > > > Would you be willing to show sniffer captures so we could take a look? > > > > johannes > > Of course it's interpreting the IE. Random vendor IE works fine. Ok, that wasn't really clear to me until now. > Let me explain why I'm even bothering with sending this mikrotik IE in > association requests. The Mikrotik IE has a flag that tells the AP if > the station wants WDS. Setting that flag and sending the mikrotik IE > is required for transparent bridging with a mikrotik AP. Aha, ok. > Sending the Mikrotik IE with the WDS bit set to 0 works fine. Even more curious :-) > Now I'm sure this is a problem on Mikrotiks side, however in ubnts > airos this works as expected, and since their airos is probably based > on openwrt there has to be a way to make this work. > > I will send you the captures, however there doesn't seem to be > anything much interesting in them. Indeed, it seems unlikely I could get anything from that. Do you have a successful handshake done by a "real" client implementation? Perhaps it expects the 4-way-HS to already be in 4-addr frame format, or something else special in the 4-way-HS if you have WDS? johannes
