Unfortunately, at least the current libnl git snapshot changes the API
in backwards incompatible way and in a way that makes it difficult to
to allow building against the latest libnl code.
This is currently happening way too frequently (mac80211 monitor
interface sends TX info for every frame) and the end result makes it
difficult to read hostapd debug log if there is large amount of data
traffic.
Only one of the authentication frame types is encrypted. In order for
static WEP encryption to work properly (i.e., to not encrypt the frame),
we need to tell mac80211 about the frames that must not be encrypted.
If the phy info from nl80211 does not include 802.11b mode, generate
that mode based on 802.11g information. This allows hw_mode=b to be used
with drivers that support 2.4 GHz band.
This depends on a patch to Linux nl80211/mac80211 that has not yet been
merged into wireless-testing. If that change is not present, the old
mechanism (WEXT) will be used instead.
If country_code is set in hostapd.conf, hostapd will now update nl80211
regulatory data by setting the alpha2 string for CRDA. In other words,
"iw reg set <alpha2>" is not needed anymore when using hostapd.
(e.g., via driver_nl80211 when using mac80211) instead of using hostapd as
the source of the regulatory information (i.e., information from CRDA is
now used with mac80211); this allows 5 GHz channels to be used with hostapd
(if allowed in the current regulatory domain).
A recent kernel change led to all EAPOL frames being encrypted rather than
just those for the group handshake. This is due to transmit processing in
the kernel now using the proper interface which would encrypt those frames
with the group key because hostapd wasn't requesting that they not be
encrypted. This changes the nl80211 driver to not request encryption unless
the EAPOL frame should be encrypted.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Move the use of 802.11 header protocol field into driver_hostap.c since
this is a Host AP driver specific mechanism and other driver wrappers
should not really need to know about it.
This new cfg80211 command is used for setting CTS protect, short preamble,
and short slot time parameters for the BSS. The matching kernel change has
been submitted, but is not yet included in wireless-testing. The code here
used #ifdef to avoid compilation failures before the new command is
available.
Added code to use suggested nl80211/cfg80211 API for setting MFP related
parameters. This is disabled by default since the API changes has not yet
been approved. The new commands can be enabled by defining
NL80211_MFP_PENDING (this will be removed once the API changes is
approved).
linux/wireless.h ends up including number of Linux kernel header files and
many of the definitions are conflicting with (or at least duplicating)
definitions in net/if.h.
