Adding generic Information Elements

[Manoj Verma, Noida]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter De Cleyn [mailto:peter.decleyn at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 6:57 PM
>To: Manoj Verma, Noida
>Cc: hostap at shmoo.com
>Subject: Re: Adding generic Information Elements
>
>> > Hi list,
>> >
>> > I would like to add some own Information Elements (IE) to the
>> > association request and response messages.
>> >
>> > A search here and some browsing through the code showed me that
>> > something similar is done when using WPA, (using
>> > prism2_ioctl_set_generic_elment etc) but I still have some questions.
>> >
>> > * How do you define where you want to add the new IE (e.g. beacon
>> > frame, asso req, asso res)
>>
>> If we are acting as supplicant then this should be added to the
>association
>> request frame.
>
>Sorry if I was'nt clear enough, but I want to enhance the basic
>association process by adding extra IEs and I found some references on
>how to add IEs in the WPA supplicant code. driver_hostap.c uses a
>ioctl which eventually calls prism2_ioctl_set_generic_element in
>hostap_ioctl.c which adds the generic Information Element.
>
>
>So my first question was how to make sure a certain IE was added to
>e.g. the association request (response) sent to a AP (STA).
>
I think one way is to sniff the packets you are sending.
Second way I can think of is enabling debug at the access point side and see
the association frame it has received.
I will be interested in knowing other ways.

>>
>> > * When should this be set: if the IE does not change once or every
>> > time a certain frame is sent
>>
>> It should be set before sending the join request to the Access point.
>>
>
>Does this means that the supplied IE will be added to the next
>management frame?

YES ...
>
>> > These questions might be trivial to you, but I'm quite new to the
>> > field so I could really appreciate some answers.
>> >
>> > thanks a lot for reading and hopefully answering these questions!
>> >
>> > Peter
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