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47 lines
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Hotspot 2.0 networks are common in airports/airplanes (e.g. Boingo) and are also
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found in various other locations implemented by cable/cellular providers. These
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networks allow you to use a secure 8021x access point using the account
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credentials for your e.g. cable/cellular provider, or via a dedicated account
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like Boingo. Lots of these services also allow you to roam between networks.
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The underlying authentication is standard WPA2-Enterprise but Hotspot 2.0 adds a
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'discovery' stage to identifiying networks. This discovery is done using ANQP,
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which queries the network for additional information to determine if the client
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has the credentials to connect.
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Because of this network identification capability the hotspot network must be
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provisioned before hand as you would with 8021x, though the provisioning file
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requires at least one additional value in addition to the regular 8021x EAP
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information. Under the Hotspot group NAIRealmNames and HESSID have
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been added. NAIRealmNames is a required field. HESSID is optional but, if
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provided, may allow IWD to skip the ANQP step and directly connect (assuming
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the network advertised HESSID matches).
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NAIRealmNames is a comma separated list of realms e.g.
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[Hotspot]
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NAIRealmNames=realm.example.com,another.realm.com
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HESSID is simply a MAC address e.g.
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[Hotspot]
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HESSID=ab:cd:ef:01:23:67
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A side note:
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Since hotspot's use of ANQP is done before we are connected, it is done via
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public action frames. This requires the WiFi hardware go offchannel, similar
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to scans. Because of this scans and ANQP are done on a first come first serve
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basis in the kernel, which can result in delays. To mitigate this IWD will
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suspend any scanning until ANQP finishes. There is also a new feature in the
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5.3 kernel which notifies userspace when a 'remain-on-channel' action has
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completed. This feature is only available on mac80211 based driver and is
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required for IWD to do ANQP reliably.
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Since not all kernels will have this option right away an option was added to
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IWD which allows the user to disable ANQP. As a result, this will also disable
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any hotspot 2.0 network connections unless the HESSID is provided in the
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configuration file. By default ANQP will be disabled. It can be enabled with:
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disable_anqp=0
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