Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Random local address for Public Action frame exchange

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

> Acknowledgment is done for transmitter<->receiver addresses,
> not for source<->destination?

Well, these are management frames, there either are no SA/DA or they're
identical to RA/TA, depending on how you want to look at it. Typically
it does get called SA/DA too then.

> Patch talks about source address randomization, but I guess it
> actually
>   meant transmitter address (basically dynamic BSSID config?). Maybe
> naming should be changed in the patch.

Yes, I suppose TA might be a tad more accurate.

BSSID is another (unrelated) address.

> For NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_MGMT_TX_RANDOM_SA_CONNECTED case,
> I wonder if HW can be configured to not filter-out multiple BSSIDs
> or 
> the idea
> is that while random_sa frame is pending for ACK, HW will drop all 
> frames destined
> for initially configured BSSID?

Again, BSSID is unrelated (unless you're restricting yourself to the AP
STA case where BSSID == local MAC address).

And no, traffic would not be permitted to be dropped in this case, IMO

johannes