Re: Help tracing NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE as event in IBSS mode

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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