From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 17:50:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10241065670 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FC68FC0C for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcje9 with SMTP id je9so1350008bkc.13 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:50:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :x-gm-message-state; bh=VhJAdwpD3x7SOuIgJrX9Drygo/mvwM//dCNJiuthTVE=; b=aeeS72CA/ensljVYC2A+MTG2Fzt5GYBCuC66vIXiyTf+WWehHPCOj4tye1gc4eFhQT 5Km53v+x9lKtC7rjJfm609rITmARbOf8HXJNnGin0zqP6mCsT2pj6urXdcxn6ytvxq9X NOlZ3ltDkXLhUhdnW7NAvoJgYfOySBAh5hHApxZEiqpDQVorGIgPoARnf04qVHjHTNCa 2yznlfkRm2/JqrZ3W5WOTF0B+vOQnexIh37Zg6rA5g3LwwS55CU0I++2PukqrsxwWVsk QTu+FJpkLWMGPc9zSf3Yik4+KUKzYU+9N/jfA+esRF5Iq/67zTZ66Uvl0WCcWsyIh/6h pmbw== Received: by 10.204.148.12 with SMTP id n12mr936225bkv.6.1345830631733; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amy.lab.techwires.net (dslb-088-067-209-027.pools.arcor-ip.net. [88.67.209.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gq2sm6779995bkc.13.2012.08.24.10.50.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Bernhard Schmidt To: Adrian Chadd Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:51:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-RC1; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: <199007581.20120824202155@serebryakov.spb.ru> <201208241910.35576.bschmidt@techwires.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208241951.06694.bschmidt@techwires.net> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmnmmCilPu7cMD0ZqrGhEgvb/qwbs31rqhkumY/8AuGHiZ+XgFXjYNJBeVDB+GHQMvUIGft Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature-poor default WPA userland software (hostapd, wpa_supplicant) configuration -- is it inetntional? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:50:33 -0000 On Friday 24 August 2012 19:15:10 Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 24 August 2012 10:10, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > There is more interesting stuff available which needs someone to look > > into, eg. briding support and VLANs. I guess the bridging stuff is > > required to get 11r running. 11w though requires hardware support if > > I'm not totally of. > > > > There are even a lot of 11n options available which are currently not > > supported nor in any other way tunable, this requires stack work, not > > only for the supplicant but also for ifconfig. > > There's also likely a whole bunch of driver and stack things we need. > Eg, we need correct VLAN handling (which is fine, we SHOULD have it in > net80211, I just don't think it's been tested in a long time.) There's > also off-channel traffic support which I know we don't currently do. Na.. not VLAN over WLAN (well, yeah, that needs to be looked into also), hostapd is able to shove STAs into different VLANs (on the wired interface) based on Radius rules. -- Bernhard