It turns out that madwifi actually has the basics for uAPSD implemented
but it was never ported to FreeBSD. I may eventually port most of the
pieces; I'll see how it goes!
Obtained from: Madwifi
This is a subset of what's in the linux 802.11ac implementation.
I've verified that the bits that mention an 802.11ac draft are
still the same in 802.11ac-2013 and noted it accordingly.
This is for the most part one big no-op.
Obtained from: 802.11ac-2013.pdf
This displays the IE names in ifconfig but it doesn't yet decode things.
Submitted by: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3782
- Add definitions for Timing Advertisement and Control Wrapper frames.
- Refresh ieee80211_mgt_subtype_name and ieee80211_ctl_subtype_name
arrays.
- Count Timing Advertisement frames as discarded management frames in all
modes.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5331
frames to 0
From IEEE Std. 802.11-2012, 8.3.2.1 "Data frame format", p. 415 (513):
"The Sequence Control field for QoS (+)Null frames is ignored by the receiver
upon reception."
At this moment, any <mode>_input() function interprets them as regular QoS data
frames with TID = 0. As a result, stations, that use another TX sequence for
QoS Null frames (e.g. wpi(4), where (QoS) Null frames are generated by the
firmware), may experience significant packet loss with any other NIC in hostap
mode.
Tested:
* wpi(4) (author)
* iwn(4) - Intel 5100, STA mode (me)
PR: kern/200128
Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
The origin of WEP comes from IEEE Std 802.11-1997 where it defines
whether the frame body of MAC frame has been encrypted using WEP
algorithm or not.
IEEE Std. 802.11-2007 changes WEP to Protected Frame, indicates
whether the frame is protected by a cryptographic encapsulation
algorithm.
Reviewed by: adrian, rpaulo
* The following bit flags where incroccetly defined:
o Mesh Control Present
o Mesh Power Save Level
o RSPI
This is now corrected according to Table 8.4 as per IEEE 802.11 2012;
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
* Renamed IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHPANN to IEEE80211_ELEMID_MESHGANN according to
amendment;
* Added IEEE80211_IOC_MESH_GATE that controls whether Mesh Gate Announcement
is activated or not;
* Renamed all flags from Portal to Gate in HWMP frames;
* Removed IEEE80211_ACTION_MESHPANN enum cause its part of the Mesh Action
category now as per amendment;
* Renamed IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_PORTAL to IEEE80211_MESHFLAGS_GATE in
ieee80211_mesh_state flags;
* Modified ieee80211_hwmp.c/ieee80211_mesh.c to use new GATE flags;
Approved by: adrian
* Added new action category IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_SELF_PROT which is used by 11s
for Mesh Peering Management;
* Updated Self protected enum Action codes to start from 1 instead of 0
according to the standard spec;
* Removed old and wrong action categories IEEE80211_ACTION_CAT_MESHPEERING;
* Modified ieee80211_mesh.c and ieee80211_action.c to use the new action
category code;
* Added earlier verification code in ieee80211_input;
Approved by: adrian
* Change in mesh_input to validate that QoS is set and Mesh Control field
is present, also both bytes of the QoS are read;
* Moved defragmentation in mesh_input before we try to forward packet as
inferred from amendment spec, because Mesh Control field only present in first
fragment;
* Changed in ieee80211_encap to set QoS subtype and Mesh Control field present,
only first fragment have Mesh Control field present bit equal to 1;
Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com
* Moved old categories as specified by D4.0 to be action fields of MESH category
as specified in amendment spec;
* Modified functions to use MESH category and its action fields:
+ ieee80211_send_action_register
+ ieee80211_send_action
+ ieee80211_recv_action_register
+ieee80211_recv_action;
* Modified ieee80211_hwmp_init and hwmp_send_action so they uses correct
action fields as specified in amendment spec;
* Modified ieee80211_parse_action so that it verifies MESH frames.
* Change Mesh Link Metric to use one information element as amendment spec.
Draft 4.0 defined two different information elements for request and response.
Submitted by: monthadar@gmail.com
This supports both station and hostap modes:
* Station mode quiet time element support listens to quiet time
IE's and modifies the local quiet time configuration as appropriate;
* Hostap mode both obeys the locally configured quiet time period
and includes it in beacon frames so stations also can obey as needed.
Submitted by: Himali Patel <himali.patel@sibridgetech.com>
Sponsored by: Sibridge Technologies
clean up parts of the *_recv_mgmt() functions.
- make sure appropriate counters are bumped and debug messages are printed
- order the unhandled subtypes by value and add a few missing ones
- fix some whitespace nits
- remove duplicate code in adhoc_recv_mgmt()
- remove a useless comment, probably left in while c&p
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s
o don't increment extracted tid, this was a vestige of IEEE80211_NONQOS_TID
being defined as 0 (w/ real tid's +1)
o handle 4-address frames (add IEEE80211_IS_DSTODS to check if an 802.11
header is DSTODS)
Submitted by: cbzimmer
Reviewed by: avatar
o IEEE80211_IOC_CHANSWITCH fixups:
- restrict to hostap vaps
- return EOPNOTSUPP instead of EINVAL when applied to !hostap vap
or to a vap w/o 11h enabled
- interpret count of 0 to mean cancel the current CSA
Reviewed by: rpaulo, avatar
o break out version-related code to simplify rev'ing the protocol
o add parameter validation macros so checks that appear multiple places
are consistent (and easy to change)
o add protocol version check when looking for a scan candidate
o improve scan debug output format
o rewrite beacon update handling to calculate a bitmask of changed values
and pass that down through the driver callback so drivers can optimize work
o do slot bounds check before use when parsing received beacons
o add net80211 support for a tdma vap that is built on top of the
existing adhoc-demo support
o add tdma scheduling of frame transmission to the ath driver; it's
conceivable other devices might be capable of this too in which case
they can make use of the 802.11 protocol additions etc.
o add minor bits to user tools that need to know: ifconfig to setup and
configure, new statistics in athstats, and new debug mask bits
While the architecture can support >2 slots in a TDMA BSS the current
design is intended (and tested) for only 2 slots.
Sponsored by: Intel
Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.
Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)
o update 11n definitions to D2.0 spec
o add IEEE80211_CAPINFO_SPECTRUM_MGMT for DFS support
o add CSA ie definition for DFS support
o purge some unused definitions
o correct 802.11 reason and status codes
o correct reason code returned when a sta tries to associate to an
ap operating with WPA/RSN but without a WPA/RSN ie
Reviewed by: thompsa, avatar
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing
Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested
This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.
