WPS: reconnections in Open mode

Andriy Tkachuk andriy.tkachuk
Wed Jan 21 03:07:32 PST 2009


Hi Jouni and community.

It seems that there is a problem with Open mode in hostapd when 
connecting STA via WPS to it. Registration passes successfully, but when 
STA reconnects in Open mode hostapd starts 802.1X authentication with it:

STA did not include WPA/RSN IE in (Re)Association Request - possible WPS use
wlan0: STA 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd RADIUS: starting accounting session 3843151F-00000004
wlan0: STA 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd IEEE 802.1X: start authentication

Of course it does not succeed and STA is disconnected after a while:

IEEE 802.1X: 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd - (EAP) retransWhile --> 0
EAP: EAP entering state RETRANSMIT
EAP: EAP entering state TIMEOUT_FAILURE
IEEE 802.1X: 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd BE_AUTH entering state TIMEOUT
IEEE 802.1X: 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd AUTH_PAE entering state ABORTING
IEEE 802.1X: 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd BE_AUTH entering state INITIALIZE
wlan0: STA 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd IEEE 802.1X: aborting authentication
IEEE 802.1X: 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd AUTH_PAE entering state INITIALIZE
IEEE 802.1X: 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd BE_AUTH entering state IDLE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
wlan0: STA 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
EAP: Server state machine removed
wlan0: STA 00:50:bf:bb:1c:fd IEEE 802.11: disassociated  

STA reconnects again and all this reproduces again and so on.

I think it is because in WPS mode we have integrated EAP server enabled 
in hostapd which tries to authenticate STA.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thank you,
    Andriy



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