Hello,

I am trying to get NetworkManager to allow passing the "ieee80211w" option to 
wpa_supplicant to enable 802.11W Management Frame Protection (MFP). The 802.11W 
amendments are included in all amended versions of 802.11 after it, including 
802.11N. It solves some major security weaknesses in the protocol, like spoofed 
disassociate messages, and support has been included in wpa_supplicant since 
0.5.6 and was finalized in 0.7.0.

I have seen nm-device-wifi.c:build_supplicant_config(), but I don't know from 
where that is called, when, etc., or how the configuration is subsequently 
bestowed on wpa_supplicant. Can someone explain it? It would be great if 
someone could explain the code path, but a patch would be great too. ;)

Thanks for your help.

-- 
Eric Branson
California State University, Sacramento
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