On Thu, May 14 2020, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote:
> The capablities info field in an association request contains an ESS bit
> which is set if the sender is an access point (there are other cases but
> they don't matter for us; see 802.11-2012 8.4.1.4 if you are interested).
>
> This bit is set when OpenBSD clients send an association request to an AP.
> This seems wrong. The ESS bit should be zero when sent by clients.
>
> Noticed while looking over packet captures for an unrelated issue.
>
> ok?

Makes sense and works for me, ok jca@

> diff 4a0fa473f5ea308b63ffd39645f73b2195291973 /usr/src
> blob - 7952471d5bb369c9bb844966425fffc892a71038
> file + sys/net80211/ieee80211_output.c
> --- sys/net80211/ieee80211_output.c
> +++ sys/net80211/ieee80211_output.c
> @@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ ieee80211_get_assoc_req(struct ieee80211com *ic, struc
>               return NULL;
>  
>       frm = mtod(m, u_int8_t *);
> -     capinfo = IEEE80211_CAPINFO_ESS;
> +     capinfo = 0;
>       if (ic->ic_flags & IEEE80211_F_WEPON)
>               capinfo |= IEEE80211_CAPINFO_PRIVACY;
>       if ((ic->ic_flags & IEEE80211_F_SHPREAMBLE) &&
>

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