ath11k/WCN6855 neighbor report request made immediately after connection gets no response (with MFP)

James Prestwood prestwoj at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 06:06:38 PDT 2024


On 9/28/24 7:14 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
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> On 9/27/2024 7:53 PM, James Prestwood wrote:
>> I think what I saw here was because the capture was done through the AP vendor was automatically decrypted or something. The frame was still marked as protected, but I never had to add the PMK to get wireshark to parse it correctly.
> this is exactly what I see. there is no automatic decryption here, it is only because the frame is NOT encrypted, though 'protected' bit set.
>
>> On my home network when I was referring to "always encrypted" it was because the frames always had the CCMP IV and the content of the frame itself was not visibly a neighbor report/request, just a string of hex values. Once I added the PMK and decrypted it wireshark could parse it.
> is this tested still with IWD?
Yes, only with IWD.



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