On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 12:44 -0400, Will Hawkins wrote: > > Huh, now I'm confused, why would it need the authenticate frames for > > IBSS? As far as I can tell, it looks at CMD_NEW_STA, which calls > > nl80211_new_station_event(), > > This is what I understand as well. > > which in IBSS sends EVENT_IBSS_RSN_START to > > the supplicant core -- that will trigger the 4-way-handshake. No? Hence > > it doesn't need to register for auth frames, it never needs them, since > > RSN uses open auth, if any is even used in IBSS at all. > > This is where I am still trying to figure out exactly how it works. I believe that when the new station is added (NEW_STA event), it will simply send out a 1/4 EAPOL frame. Since both do that, I guess it does some kind of de-duplication? Whoever sends it first wins or something, but I don't really know. Maybe we should take the discussion to the hostap list at this point :-) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
