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Re: Implementing Mikrotik IE

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On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:08 +0200, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> Am 22.08.2019 um 23:06 schrieb Josef Miegl:
> > On August 22, 2019 10:08:13 PM GMT+02:00, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2019-08-22 at 09:00 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > > I think this is actually the right guess.
> > Yes, it indeed it! Thank you so much Johannes!

> good finding. my idea here is if we parse the wds flags field from mtik 
> ie within mac80211 we could also support this special handing without 
> any workaround

The same holds true if we parse it in hostapd, and add a flag to the
EAPOL to control the encapsulation, which is way more general, so much
preferable IMHO.

johannes




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