Re: ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

Hi Johannes,

On 09/15/2017 02:19 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 14:54 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> 
>> If you want roaming to keep oper state UP in all cases, then
>> yes.  Does this work on full mac cards as well?
> 
> I don't see why not.
> 
>> 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 ;)

> 
> 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?  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?

Regards,
-Denis