From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:52:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1505487158.31630.45.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b87b61bc-6c29-3a4e-01bd-652cf1eb095c@gmail.com> (sfid-20170915_162734_306435_5EAB8786)
On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 09:27 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> > > However, you're not answering my question...
> >
> > Which was?
>
> So if we issue CMD_CONNECT with a PREV_BSSID, does/should OPERSTATE
> still stay UP?
It's difficult to do, but from a higher-layer POV I'd argue that it
should? I'd basically argue that it's no different from 802.1X
reauthentication, and the operstate docs say:
-set interface back to IF_OPER_DORMANT if 802.1X reauthentication
fails
> > We had intended to have NL80211_CMD_ROAM to make that decision
> > once,
> > but never really used it for that... I think it could be
> > implemented
> > but I don't really know how well drivers were to support it.
>
> I think it would be nice. Worst case a driver won't implement it,
> but we can use FT on those that do.
I have no idea how you'd ask them to do FT or just normal reassoc? I
guess they don't really care as long as the supplicant is in the host.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-15 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-14 8:39 ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 11:21 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-14 11:44 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 18:37 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:17 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:34 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:38 ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 20:05 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 20:08 ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 20:26 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 20:29 ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 20:35 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 20:47 ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 21:35 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 22:15 ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 22:42 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 22:57 ` Ben Greear
2017-09-15 7:23 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 7:20 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:39 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 18:27 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 18:36 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:08 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:22 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:37 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:41 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:42 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:54 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 7:19 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 12:50 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 13:29 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 13:50 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 14:20 ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 14:27 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 14:52 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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