probe request handling with driver_nl80211

[Mail4Lior]

 On 16/05/2011 22:23, Jouni Malinen wrote:

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:52:59PM +0300, Mail4Lior wrote:

 I want to understand why the probe request frames are registered at
the wpa_supplicant only when the device is in listen mode?

 This is special functionality for P2P device discovery.


 Which component(fw/driver/supplicant) will handle those probe in
active mode(the device in GO state)?

 That depends on the driver. Some drivers handle the Probe Request frames
in firmware or kernel, others may use the AP code in
hostapd/wpa_supplicant to process the frames.


 If this response done by lower layers (driver/fw) how the information
element is passing to those layer, which API is used?

 That depends on the driver. Full Probe Request frame (and other
management frames) may be delivered to hostapd/wpa_supplicant (e.g.,
through monitor interface in case of mac80211) or
EVENT_RX_PROBE_REQ/EVENT_RX_MGMT driver events may be used for this.

 So if I understand correctly
1. The probe response in P2P GO is always built in the wpa_supplicant when
using nl80211 driver (the nl80211 driver doesn't have an API for sending the
Probe Response IE to kernel).
2. when using nl80211, the drive event EVENT_RX_MGMT is used for probe
request only at discovery stage(listen mode) the frame registration is done
only for this period.
3. The nl80211 driver interface is always use the monitor interface to
indicate/forward management packets to the supplicant . when not in listen
state
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