Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:55647 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752924Ab0LUTio convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:38:44 -0500 Received: by iyi12 with SMTP id 12so3428946iyi.19 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:38:43 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1292928100.3563.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <1292928100.3563.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> From: Daniel Halperin Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:38:23 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: vendor IEs? To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Johannes Berg 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? How did the WFA get an OUI? Is there a Linux OUI? Dan