On Thu, 2019-08-22 at 01:57 +0200, Josef Miegl wrote: > On August 20, 2019 2:36:21 PM GMT+02:00, Sebastian Gottschall > <[email protected]> wrote: > > i know. thats why i never even tried to contribute it upstream. but > > from > > hostapd side it was more complicated than just hacking mac80211 > > and from stations a second mod for wpa_supplicant would be needed and > > since the dd-wrt webgui just uses nl80211 to show the station table > > its more comportable and takes less code just todo it within the driver > > i there is special interest in it i could of course try to clean it up > > and make a upstream patch out of it > > I don't think something like Mikrotiks IE belongs to hostapd. The > cleanest solution is probably parsing the IE and generating the IE for > hostapd with an external tool, that can the dd-wrt GUI then use. I've > made a simple C program for this, can share if you want.
Sebastian was talking about yet another case - namely recording it for the stations, to be able to show it. I guess hostapd could be made to just generally record *all* the association request IEs that a station sent and make those available over the control interface. Alternatively, you could have another application just listen to nl80211 events, I guess. Or even the kernel could capture *all*, but I don't see why we'd waste unpageable kernel memory for it. johannes
