Re: ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 07:50 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:

> > > E.g. if I CMD_CONNECT to AP1, then pre-authenticate to AP2 and
> > > issue a CMD_CONNECT to AP2?
> > 
> > That's not something you can do with full-MAC cards?
> 
> Err, why not?  Pre-Authentication runs over a 0x88c7 protocol.  So
> we should get these just like regular PAE frames.  But forget 
> pre-authentication, one can still force a roam between BSSes within
> the same ESS by specifying NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID.  At least that's
> what the docs say ;)

Oh, you meant that kind of pre-authentication :-)

I thought you meant sending an 802.11 auth frame to the new AP before
breaking the connection to the old AP.

> > And even mac80211 doesn't really support pre-authentication (unless
> > you mean over-the-DS)

> 
> There's only one kind of preauthentication? Are you confusing this
> with FT?

No, see above.

> We use FT-over-Air just fine on mac80211 and on real hardware.  We 
> even have an autotest for this based on mac80211_hwsim.  FT-over-DS 
> should work as well.
> 
> Full macs don't support FT due to lack of 
> CMD_ASSOCIATE/CMD_AUTHENTICATE.  Can we fix that btw?

Well, with full MAC devices you should let the device decide on the
BSS?

johannes