Re: wifi: iwlwifi: SAE fails when AP sends confirm before STA

On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 09:03 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
>  >
> > There is a an SAE confirm sent by the AP. It's frame 170 in
> > capture2.pcapng. It's also retried a number of times after that.
> > 
> 
> What I also find interesting is that the kernel on the client side reports 
> sending the Authenticate-Confirm 3 times (according to dmesg and trace2.dat), 
> but only a single Confirm from the client is seen in the air trace.  I'm 
> guessing the retransmissions (attempt 2 & 3) are lost somehow?.
> 
> [64414.164169] wlan0: send auth to 96:2a:6f:b6:d7:9f (try 2/3)
> [64415.063575] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Not associated and the session protection 
> is over already...
> [64415.063668] wlan0: Connection to AP 96:2a:6f:b6:d7:9f lost
> [64416.215729] wlan0: send auth to 96:2a:6f:b6:d7:9f (try 3/3)
> 

I think it's expecting a confirm in response, but that was already lost
before.

johannes