On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 10:19:44AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
| On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 at 10:12, Doug Ambrisko <ambri...@ambrisko.com> wrote:
| 
| > I assume there isn't hack to skip it in the kernel or wpa_supplicant if the
| > AP requires it?
| >
| 
| No. The management frames need to be encrypted/decrypted correctly, and the
| broadcast management / action frames need a new IE to be added and
| validated.
| 
| Things just "don't" work in subtle ways if you try to hack it in.
| 
| All the stuff I've been cleaning up / working on has been to get enough
| stuff working w/ 11ac so I can now work on 802.11w/MFP.
| It even requires some crypto code clean-up so we handle the MFP frames
| correctly w/ CCMP (as there's now a couple flags we need to care about.)
| 
| I'm getting there, just slowly, as it requires a bunch of refactoring and
| clean-up as I go along. :)

I figured that would be the case.  When you have something to test I can
try it out.

Thanks,

Doug A.

| > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 10:07:04AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
| > | hi,
| > |
| > | I'm slowly working on it. It requires a lot of cleanup in net80211.
| > |
| > | -adrian
| > |
| > | On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 at 09:53, Doug Ambrisko <ambri...@ambrisko.com>
| > wrote:
| > |
| > | > Do we support management frame protection?  I'm using iwlwifi on
| > -current.
| > | > Work now requires it so I can't connect anymore.  I did some testing
| > | > with OpenWRT at home and when I require 802.11w Management Frame
| > Protection
| > | > then I can't connect.  Linux works fine.  Linux shows pmf=2 for
| > | > wpa_supplicant and when I set that doesn't help for FreeBSD.  I'm using
| > | > wpa_supplicant from ports which is the same version running on Linux.
| > | >
| > | > With pmf=2 set in wpa_supplicant.conf in the debug output I see:
| > | >         wlan0:    skip RSN IE - no mgmt frame protection enabled but AP
| > | > requires it
| > | >         wlan0:    reject due to mismatch with WPA/WPA2
| > | >
| > | > without I see:
| > | >         bsd_set_key: alg=3 addr=0x23f788 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=6
| > | > key_len=16
| > | >         wlan0: WPA: IGTK keyid 4 pn 000000000000
| > | >         WPA: IGTK - hexdump(len=16): [REMOVED]
| > | >         bsd_set_key: alg=4 addr=0x23f788 key_idx=4 set_tx=0 seq_len=6
| > | > key_len=16
| > | >         ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=19, val=0, arg_len=64]: Invalid argument
| > | >         wlan0: WPA: Failed to configure IGTK to the driver
| > | >         wlan0: RSN: Failed to configure IGTK
| > | >
| > | > and then it disconnects.
| > | >
| > | > 802.11r Fast Transition in OpenWRT seems to work okay when I enable
| > that
| > | > without PMF.
| > | >
| > | > Thanks,
| > | >
| > | > Doug A.
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >


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