Hi Baochen
On 2/22/24 5:56 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
On 2/22/2024 11:38 PM, James Prestwood wrote:
Hi Baochen,
On 2/21/24 6:26 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
But you are using monitor mode, not station mode, on ath10k, right?
No I'm using station mode. It looks like ath10k creates a monitor
device to receive these frames (that was already done before my
patch), but the interface I'm using from userspace is a regular
station interface
OK let's forget what ath10k does to receiver those frames for now and
focus on ath11k. From what I got from firmware team, it's expected
that ath11k station interface can't get those frame without a scan
because device A is connected to an AP already and is supposed to get
frames only from within the BSS, apparently device B here is not
within that BSS.
I still don't know why a scan would change anything. Maybe the act of
scanning triggers something in the firmware to allow the RX of multicast
frames (like to receive probe responses)? If so that's not really a
mechanism to enable multicast RX, its just a side effect of scanning.
But yes currently when an ath11k device is connected to a BSS it will
only receive frames from within that BSS. This is what I was attempting
to change, allow it to receive multicast action frames while connected
(or disconnected for that matter).
The whole point of DPP is to provision a new device. So one device is
offline and asking the connected device for credentials. This is done
via multicast action frames.
Thanks,
James
Thanks,
James
