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[feature]: Support 802.11r BSS Fast Transition (FT-PSK) for DPSK module #5912

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We are currently looking into using the dpsk module in our wifi setup.
After some issues we finally got it working.
Thanks, @hshimomura for the perl script.

The biggest issue was, that we configured EysyPSK on our Cisco WLAN Controller (Catalyst 9800; v17.12.x) with FT enabled.
The screenshot in the official Cisco documentation shows that Fast Transition is "Adaptive Enabled".
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/easy-psk-deployment-guide.html

But we figured out that this is not compatible with the dpsk module.
If Fast Transition is enabled the EAPol-Message is too big.
Even after we ignored this length check, it still did not work.
As it turned out, there seems to be a difference in the crypto calculation between PSK and FT-PSK.
(At least that is what ChatGPT told us.)

After disabling FT is worked. 👍

So maybe the module (and perl script) could be enhanced to support Fast Transition.

Or add an info in the documentation that FT needs to be disable.

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