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Subject: Re: Implementing Mikrotik IE
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Josef Miegl <josef@miegl.cz>,
        Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@newmedia-net.de>
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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:12:43 +0200
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On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 13:38 +0200, Josef Miegl wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:15:30PM +0200, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> > in station mode you are right. you need to modify mac80211.
> Even if I don't need to capture the IE back? All I want is to include
> extra vendor IE in client assoc/reassoc frames. If this is something the
> current wireless stack cannot do, perhaps it should be implemented.

Contrary to what Sebastian states, it certainly is possible today,
although not through wpa_supplicant's config file, only through the
wpa_cli interface, using the VENDOR_ELEM_ADD command. There are various
tests showing how to use this.

johannes