Subject: Re: vendor IEs?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:45:26 +0100
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On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 11:38 -0800, Daniel Halperin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 16:53 -0800, Daniel Halperin wrote:
> >> Is there a compiled list of vendor-specific IEs out there?  Googling
> >> didn't offer much help.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any list, nor can there really be one since everybody
> > who has an OUI is free to define their own IEs.
> >
> > That said, some of them are of course mostly standardised, like the WFA
> > ones for WPA, WSC/WPS and P2P for instance. I don't think there's a even
> > a comprehensive list of WFA ones though other than in what you get by
> > combining all those standards.
> 
> On that note, if you wanted to define a custom IE what would you do?

I'd work with a vendor to get to use their OUI :-)

> How did the WFA get an OUI?  Is there a Linux OUI?

http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/index.html

I'm not aware of a Linux OUI.

johannes