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From: Vivek Das Mohapatra <vivek@collabora.com>
To: iwd@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Interop problem with Quantum Fiber WiFi7 pods (duplicate RSNXE IE)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:08:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26febdbb-1184-46be-989b-45aace86f104@collabora.com> (raw)

Hi - we've had reports of an incompatibility between network manager and
the wifi7 hardware mentioned when using iwd as the backend.

 From what we've been able to tell:

validate_mgmt_ies() fails
cause: disallowed duplicate IEs in the AssocResponse frame

We appear to have two dupes:

221 - IE_TYPE_VENDOR_SPECIFIC - allowed
244 - IE_TYPE_RSNX - not allowed as a dup.

We checked IEEE 80211-2020.pdf couldn't find specific details about IEs
that can be duplicated vs the ones that can’t.
[ Sections 9.4.2.1 and 9.4.2.241 ]

We've tried various devices and software combinations (linux and non)
and it seems to be an interop problem with iwd specifically - we think 
adding IE_TYPE_RSNX to the allowed dups list in validate_mgmt_ies should
do the trick.

To summarise:

  - nm + iwd (v2.14) cannot auth against a Quantum Fiber WiFi7 pod
  - there's a duplicate IE in the assocresponse which iwd is rejecting
  - we think that IE should be allowed as a dup
  - nm + wpa_supplicant seems to work
  - we tried some non-linux device and they were also able to auth

Does that sound like a reasonable fix? Do you want a patch?

             reply	other threads:[~2024-10-02 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-02 17:08 Vivek Das Mohapatra [this message]
2024-10-02 17:40 ` Interop problem with Quantum Fiber WiFi7 pods (duplicate RSNXE IE) James Prestwood
2024-10-02 18:14 ` Denis Kenzior
2024-10-02 21:41   ` Vivek Das Mohapatra
2024-10-02 21:55     ` Vivek Das Mohapatra
2024-10-03 12:17       ` James Prestwood
2024-10-04  2:58         ` Denis Kenzior
2024-10-04 11:45           ` Vivek Das Mohapatra
2024-10-05  2:19             ` RFC: Be more lenient about duplicate IEs with identical payloads Vivek Das Mohapatra
2024-10-05  2:19               ` [PATCH 1/2] unit: add a test for harmless IE clones Vivek Das Mohapatra
2024-10-07 18:26                 ` Denis Kenzior
2024-10-05  2:19               ` [PATCH 2/2] mpdu: tolerate technically illegal but harmless cloned IEs Vivek Das Mohapatra
2024-10-07 18:27                 ` Denis Kenzior
2024-10-07 18:29                   ` Vivek Das Mohapatra
     [not found] <e6936d40-0667-4128-a342-bd65dd553230@collabora.com>
2024-10-03 12:49 ` Interop problem with Quantum Fiber WiFi7 pods (duplicate RSNXE IE) Vivek Das Mohapatra

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