its likelly not hostapd. i do use wds sta and wds ap modes with latest
hostapd.
i have a different idea. hostapd is creating a ap vlan type interface
for each wds station associating and there was a issue i had with a
patch in mac80211 a while ago
since something was changed regarding vlan ap handling in mac80211
take a look on the following patches
the second one broke wds sta operation for me completelly. i never
checked the second one. my advise. revert them both and try it again and
report if its working then. i was originally complaining already on this
mailinglist about the breakage, but it seems that my comment was ignored
at the end
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next.git/commit/?id=33d915d9e8ce811d8958915ccd18d71a66c7c495
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next.git/commit/?id=db3bdcb9c3ffc628c5284d7ed03a704295ba1214
Am 02.03.2020 um 09:28 schrieb Cedric VONCKEN:
Yes I'm running mac80211 on both side.
I progress in understanding to this issue. After checked, the issue is different with different mac80211 version. With the backport 5.4-rc8-1, the driver level seem worked correctly. The hostapd (in AP side) didn't include the sta in the bridge when the security policy is WPA-PSK or WPA-EAP. With none policy the sta is correctly included.
Now I'm searching in hostpad.
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Envoyé : vendredi 28 février 2020 10:37
À : Steve deRosier <derosier@xxxxxxxxx>; Cedric VONCKEN <cedric.voncken@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc : linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : Re: [mac80211]: wds link and Radius authentication issue
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
