Passive Taxonomy of Wifi Clients using MLME Frame Contents

[Swapnil Samant]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Denton Gentry <dgentry at google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:00 PM <hostap-request at lists.infradead.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:19:41 -0600
>> From: Swapnil Samant <swapnilsamant at gmail.com>
>> To: hostap at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Passive Taxonomy of Wifi Clients using MLME Frame Contents
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>> Hello, I am trying to use the passive taxonomy feature of hostapd. I
>> have compiled hostapd using the CONFIG_TAXONOMY flag and trying to get
>> the clients signature using the hostapd_cli "signature" command. When
>> I run the command hostapd_cli signature pp:qq:rr:ss:tt:uu, I can't get
>> the clients signature. I am using hosted v 2.6 with dnsmasq 2.79. The
>> clients are connecting to the hostapd (verified with hostapd_cli
>> all_sta) but I can't get the signature. I would appreciate any help I
>> can get from you guys. Thank you!
>
>
> A couple possibilities:
> 1. I recall on OpenWRT the default compilation flags resulted in getting no
> signature back via hostapd_cli. However I think it failed all CLI commands,
> and you said all_sta works, so that is likely not it.
>
> 2. hostapd has to have seen both a probe request and an association request
> from the client before it can form a signature. There are a few clients
> which are very sparing in sending probes, notably ChromeOS. The client can
> be joined via just seeing the beacon and sending an Associate Request, but
> not have a signature until hostapd sees a probe.
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Thank you for the response, Mr. Gentry. Not sure what was wrong with
the setup earlier. After a clean setup of OS, hostapd and dnsmasq
everything seems to be working great.