From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net,
Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mac80211: Disable HT negotiation with TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:28:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219142822.GA4041@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229692235-21734-1-git-send-email-vasanth@atheros.com>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:40:35PM +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> IEEE802.11n does not allow TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher in HT mode.
> Connect in non-ht mode if either of these ciphers is cofigured as
> pairwise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Are there perhaps any broken APs out there that support such a
configuration? I would hate to prevent users from connecting simply
out of blind obedience to the standard.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-19 13:10 [PATCH] [RFC] mac80211: Disable HT negotiation with TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-12-19 13:17 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-19 14:25 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-12-19 14:28 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-12-19 14:33 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-12-19 14:42 ` John W. Linville
2008-12-19 14:52 ` Richard Farina
2008-12-19 14:56 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-12-19 15:30 ` John W. Linville
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