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Re: [mac80211]: wds link and Radius authentication issue

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On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 17:26 -0800, Steve deRosier wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:37 AM Cedric VONCKEN <cedric.voncken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Where can I found some information on how the wds system should
> > work? I looked in 802.11-2012 standard and I didn't found any
> > informations.
> > 
> 
> I think Wikipedia says it best:
> "WDS may be incompatible between different products (even occasionally
> from the same vendor) since the IEEE 802.11-1999 standard does not
> define how to construct any such implementations or how stations
> interact to arrange for exchanging frames of this format. The IEEE
> 802.11-1999 standard merely defines the 4-address frame format that
> makes it possible."

I think really what Cedric is asking is how this is/should be done with
mac80211's 4-addr client/AP mode(s)?

Cedric, are you running mac80211 on both sides of the link, the AP and
the (4-addr) client?

johannes




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