[RESEND PATCH usteer v3 0/9] Better handling of unfriendly STAs / IEEE enhancements / MBO

Nils Hendrik Rottgardt n.rottgardt at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 23:53:39 PST 2025


Hi all.

This is a RESEND to bring new attention to some missing Usteer functionality that is added here.

I decided to work on this because my Intel AX201 ignores bss transition requests send by
usteer and also other devices seems ignoring it. This is also well discussed in OpenWRT forum
"lets talk about usteer".

So this is my contribution to get usteer more useful for clients that put not high attention on
transistion requests without disassoiciation timer set. I am not finished yetbut I think this
version could be used well.

ubus call bss_transition_request disconnects stations on its own which wrong from my point
of view. I provided a hostap patch which is not merged actually. But will take care to get
this corrected in the future wo make usteer working even better than today.

Cheers,
Nils

Nils Hendrik Rottgardt (9):
  New aggressive roaming to support Intel Wifi Cards
  New aggressive roaming - optimizations
  Added a countdown before kicking the station like described in IEEE
  802.11 Mgmt: DEAUTH reason more accurate
  802.11 MBO - added reassoc_delay and reason code
  policy: Added error message if nodes has no rrm number on bss
    transition
  ubus: Corrected transition request interface for disassociation timer
  ubus: enhanced ROAMING request log entry with BSSID
  New aggr. levels combined with STA specific configuration

 band_steering.c                        | 22 ++++++++-
 local_node.c                           | 24 ++++++++--
 main.c                                 |  2 +
 openwrt/usteer/files/etc/config/usteer | 14 ++++++
 openwrt/usteer/files/etc/init.d/usteer |  4 +-
 policy.c                               | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
 sta.c                                  | 26 +++++++++++
 ubus.c                                 | 54 ++++++++++++++++------
 usteer.h                               | 34 ++++++++++----
 9 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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