systemd specifies a special passive target unit 'network-pre.target'
which may be pulled in by services that want to run before any network
interface is brought up or configured. Correspondingly, network
management services such as iwd and ead should specify
After=network-pre.target to ensure a proper ordering with respect to
this special target. For more information on network-pre.target, see
systemd.special(7).
Two examples to explain the rationale of this change:
1. On one of our embedded systems running iwd, a oneshot service is
run on startup to configure - among other things - the MAC address of
the wireless network interface based on some data in an EEPROM.
Following the systemd documentation, the oneshot service specifies:
Before=network-pre.target
Wants=network-pre.target
... to ensure that it is run before any network management software
starts. In practice, before this change, iwd was starting up and
connecting to an AP before the service had finished. iwd would then
get kicked off by the AP when the MAC address got changed. By
specifying After=network-pre.target, systemd will take care to avoid
this situation.
2. An administrator may wish to use network-pre.target to ensure
firewall rules are applied before any network management software is
started. This use-case is described in the systemd documentation[1].
Since iwd can be used for IP configuration, it should also respect
the After=network-pre.target convention.
Note that network-pre.target is a passive unit that is only pulled in if
another unit specifies e.g. Wants=network-pre.target. If no such unit
exists, this change will have no effect on the order in which systemd
starts iwd or ead.
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/
Following a successful roaming sequence, schedule another attempt unless
the driver has sent a high RSSI notification. This makes the behaviour
analogous to a failed roaming attempt where we remained connected to the
same BSS.
This makes iwd compatible with wireless drivers which do not necessarily
send out a duplicate low RSSI notification upon reassociation. Without
this change, iwd risks getting indefinitely stuck to a BSS with low
signal strength, even though a better BSS might later become available.
In the case of a high RSSI notification, the minimum roam time will also
be reset to zero. This preserves the original behaviour in the case
where a high RSSI notification is processed after station_roamed().
Doing so also gives a chance for faster roaming action in the following
example scenario:
1. RSSI LOW
2. schedule roam in 5 seconds
(5 seconds pass)
3. try roaming
4. roaming fails, same BSS
5. schedule roam in 60 seconds
(20 seconds pass)
6. RSSI HIGH
7. cancel scheduled roam
(20 seconds pass)
8. RSSI LOW
9. schedule roam in 5 seconds or 20 seconds?
By resetting the minimum roam time, we can avoid waiting 20 seconds when
the station may have moved considerably. And since the high/low RSSI
notifications are configured with a hysteresis, we should still be
protected against too frequent spurious roaming attempts.
This is a nl80211 dump version of netdev_get_station aimed at
AP mode. This will dump all stations, parse into
netdev_station_info structs, and call the callback for each
individual station found. Once the dump is completed the destroy
callback is called.
This adds a generalized API for GET_STATION. This API handles
calling and parsing the results into a new structure,
netdev_station_info. This results structure will hold any
data needed by consumers of netdev_get_station. A helper API
(netdev_get_current_station) was added as a convenience which
automatically passes handshake->aa as the MAC.
For now only the RSSI is parsed as this is already being
done for RSSI polling/events. Looking further more info will
be added such as rx/tx rates and estimated throughput.
Arrays of dictionaries are quite common, and for basic
types this API makes things much more convenient by
putting all the enter/append/leave calls in one place.
Add a parameter to station_set_scan_results to allow skipping the
removal of old BSSes. In the DBus-triggered scan only expire BSSes
after having gone through the full supported frequency set.
It should be safe to pass partial scan results to
station_set_scan_results() when not expiring BSSes so using this new
parameter I guess we could also call it for roam scan results.
A scan normally takes about 2 seconds on my dual-band wifi adapter when
connected. The drivers will normally probe on each supported channel in
some unspecified order and will have new partial results after each step
but the kernel sends NL80211_CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS only when the full
scan request finishes, and for segmented scans we will wait for all
segments to finish before calling back from scan_active() or
scan_passive().
To improve user experience define our own channel order favouring the
2.4 channels 1, 6 and 11 and probe those as an individual scan request
so we can update most our DBus org.connman.iwd.Network objects more
quickly, before continuing with 5GHz band channels, updating DBus
objects again and finally the other 2.4GHz band channels.
The overall DBus-triggered scan on my wifi adapter takes about the same
time but my measurements were not very strict, and were not very
consistent with and without this change. With the change most Network
objects are updated after about 200ms though, meaning that I get most
of the network updates in the nm-applet UI 200ms from opening the
network list. The 5GHz band channels take another 1 to 1.5s to scan and
remaining 2.4GHz band channels another ~300ms.
Hopefully this is similar when using other drivers although I can easily
imagine a driver that parallelizes 2.4GHz and 5GHz channel probing using
two radios, or uses 2, 4 or another number of dual-band radios to probe
2, 4, ... channels simultanously. We'd then lose some of the
performance benefit. The faster scan results may be worth the longer
overall scan time anyway.
I'm also assuming that the wiphy's supported frequency list is exactly
what was scanned when we passed no frequency list to
NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and we won't get errors for passing some
frequency that shouldn't have been scanned.
When the IP is configured to be static we can now use ACD in
order to check that the IP is available and not already in
use. If a conflict is found netconfig will be reset and no IP
will be set on the interface. The ACD client is left with
the default 'defend once' policy, and probes are not turned
off. This will increase connection time, but for static IP's
it is the best approach.
The docs just specified what a IP prefix looks like, not an
actual example. Though its not recommended to just copy paste
blindly, its still useful to have some value in the man pages
that actually works if someone just wants to get a DHCP server
working.
In the strange case that the dns list or the domain list are empty and
openresolv is being used, delete the openresolv entry instance instead
of trying to set it to an empty value
Make sure to erase the network_info of a known network that has been
removed before disconnecting any stations connected to it. This fixes
the following warning observed when forgetting a connected network:
WARNING: ../git/src/network.c:network_rank_update() condition n < 0 failed
This also fixes a bug where such a forgotten network would incorrectly
appear as the first element in the response to GetOrderedNetworks(). By
clearing the network_info, network_rank_update() properly negates the
rank of the now-unknown network.
==5279== 104 bytes in 2 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 1
==5279== at 0x4C2F0CF: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
==5279== by 0x4655CD: l_malloc (util.c:61)
==5279== by 0x47116B: l_rtnl_address_new (rtnl.c:136)
==5279== by 0x438F4B: netconfig_get_dhcp4_address (netconfig.c:429)
==5279== by 0x438F4B: netconfig_ipv4_dhcp_event_handler
(netconfig.c:735)
==5279== by 0x491C77: dhcp_client_event_notify (dhcp.c:332)
==5279== by 0x491C77: dhcp_client_rx_message (dhcp.c:810)
==5279== by 0x492A88: _dhcp_default_transport_read_handler
(dhcp-transport.c:151)
==5279== by 0x46BECB: io_callback (io.c:118)
==5279== by 0x46B10C: l_main_iterate (main.c:477)
==5279== by 0x46B1DB: l_main_run (main.c:524)
==5279== by 0x46B3EA: l_main_run_with_signal (main.c:646)
==5279== by 0x403ECE: main (main.c:490)
Fix the AlwaysRandomizeAddress setting name.
Add the stricter specification of the extension syntax.
Clarify that GTC and MD5 can't be used as outer EAP methods with wifi.
Tracking of addresses that weren't set by us seemed a bit questionable.
Take this out for now. If this is ever needed, then a queue with
l_rtnl_address objects should be used.
Introduce a new v4_address member which will hold the currently
configured IPV4 address (static or obtained via DHCP). Use the new
l_rtnl_address class for this.
As a side-effect, lease expiration will now properly remove the
configured address.
This patch converts the code to use the new l_rtnl_address class. The
settings parsing code will now return an l_rtnl_address object which
can be installed directly.
Also, address removal path for static addresses has been removed, since
netconfig_reset() sets disable_ipv6 setting to '1', which will remove
all IPV6 addresses for the interface.
This patch converts the code to use the new l_rtnl_route class instead
of using l_rtnl_route6* utilities. The settings parsing code will now
return an l_rtnl_route object which can be installed directly.
Also, the route removal path has been removed since netconfig_reset()
sets disable_ipv6 setting to '1' which will remove all IPV6 routes and
addresses for the interface.
This also changes the resolve API a little bit to act as a 'set' API
instead of an incremental 'add' API. This is actually easier to manage
in the resolve module since both systemd and resolvconf want changes
wholesale and not incrementally.
Waiting to request neighbor reports until we are in need of a roam
delays the roam time, and probably isn't as reliable since we are
most likely in a low RSSI state. Instead the neighbor report can
be requested immediately after connecting, saved, and used if/when
a roam is needed. The existing behavior is maintained if the early
neighbor report fails where a neighbor report is requested at the
time of the roam.
The code which parses the reports was factored out and shared
between the existing (late) neighbor report callback and the early
neighbor report callback.
handshake_state_set_authenticator_ie must be called to set group_cipher
in struct handshake_shake before handshake_set_gtk_state, otherwise
handshake_set_gtk_state is unable to determine the key length to set
handshake state gtk.
Fixes: 4bc20a0979 ("ap: Start EAP-WSC authentication with WSC enrollees")
For now the RA client is ran automatically when DHCPv6 client starts.
RA takes care of installing / deleting prefix routes and installing the
default gateway. If Router Advertisements indicate support DHCPv6, then
DHCPv6 transactions are kicked off and the address is set / removed
automatically.
Stateless configuration is not yet supported.
Modern kernels ~5.4+ have changed the way lost beacons are
reported and effectively make the lost beacon event useless
because it is immediately followed by a disconnect event. This
does not allow IWD enough time to do much of anything before
the disconnect comes in and we are forced to fully re-connect
to a different AP.
If EnableNetworkConfiguration was enabled ap.c required that
APRanges also be set. This prevents IWD from starting which
effects a perfectly valid station configuration. Instead if
APRanges is not provided IWD still allows ap_init to pass but
DHCP just will not be enabled.
Users can now supply an AP provisioning file containing an [IPv4]
section and define various DHCP settings:
[IPv4]
Address=<address>
Netmask=<netmask>
Gateway=<gateway>
IPRange=<start_address>,<end_address>
DNSList=<dns1>,<dns2>,...<dnsN>
LeaseTime=<lease_time>
There are a few notes/requirements to keep in mind when using a
provisioning file:
- All settings are optional but [IPv4].Address is required if the
interface does not already have an address set.
- If no [IPv4].Address is defined in the provisioning file and the AP
interface does not already have an address set, StartWithConfig()
will fail with -EINVAL.
- If a provisioning file is provided it will take precedence, and the
AP will not pull from the IP pool.
- A provisioning file containing an IPv4 section assumes DHCP is being
enabled and will override [General].EnableNetworkConfiguration.
- Any address that AP sets on the interface will be deleted when the AP
is stopped.
Users can now start an AP from settings based on a profile
on disk. The only argument is the SSID which will be used to
lookup the profile. If no profile is found a NotFound error
will be returned. Any invalid profiles will result in an
Invalid return.
