IEEE802.11w enabled by default

[Tom Psyborg]

Hi

Your firmware does not advertise mfp support, first check if your
client device can actually support 802.11w



On 21/12/2020, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <henrique at nic.br> wrote:
> On 20/12/2020 06:42, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>> I would like to let you know, that there was virtual meeting week ago and
>> you
>> can find the meeting minutes on the wiki[1].
>>
>> 1. https://openwrt.org/meetings/20201210
>
> FYI, about IEEE802.11w enabled by default:
>
> This is a very limited experience, but here it *tanks* client
> performance here drastically.
>
> The wireless routers are TP-Link Archer C6v2(US) and TP-Link Archer C7v4
> (BR), running openwrt 19.07 snapshot.
>
> I am not sure the slowdown is caused router-side, it could be something
> in the *client* that gets triggered by the 802.11w support, for all I
> know: the only client I have that can hit the throughput where
> performance loss gets more noticeable is a Dell laptop.
>
> The client is running the standard Debian 10 kernel (up-to-date), the
> hardware is a Dell laptop, with a QCA6174 radio and the standard firmware:
>
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id
> 0x00340aff sub 1028:0310
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 0 tracing 0 dfs 0
> testmode 0
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware ver RM.4.4.1.c2-00057-QCARMSWP-1 api 6
> features wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad,raw-mode crc32 e061250a
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: htt-ver 3.56 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta
> 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
>
> I did notice slowdowns on *both* bands (2.4GHz and 5GHz), but it is far
> more visible in 5GHz, since it reaches far higher throughput.
>
> It is bad enough that it is unfeasible for me to even consider enabling
> it :-(
>
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