From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Luis Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: Incorrect LEAP authentication algorithm identifier.
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:33:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204183346.GA3690@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081204162003.GA997@jm.kir.nu>
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:22:25AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > AFAICT this value is only used internally, so it shouldn't matter
> > what the actual value is.
>
> Nope. WLAN_AUTH_* are the values used in Authentication frames
> (Authentication Algorithm field). See ieee80211_send_auth() in
> net/mac80211/mlme.c. The ifsta->auth_alg must have a value that matches
> with the algorithm identifier in the frame and in the case of LEAP
> ("Network EAP"), this value is 128, not 2.
OK, thanks for the specific reference.
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 15:08 [PATCH] wireless: Incorrect LEAP authentication algorithm identifier Senthil Balasubramanian
2008-12-04 15:22 ` John W. Linville
2008-12-04 16:20 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-12-04 18:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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