From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: Vasanth Thiagarajan <Vasanth.Thiagarajan@Atheros.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"johannes@sipsolutions.net" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@Atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mac80211: Disable HT negotiation with TKIP/WEP as pairwise cipher
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:42:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219144256.GB4041@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494BB0BE.3030705@atheros.com>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:03:34PM +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This particular configuration is not allowed in the latest 11n draft (7.0).
> Yes, we have quite a few AP's around which support this configuration.
Honestly, as a STA I would rather violate the standard and connect
to the coffee shop's broken/misconfigured pre-draft7 .11n AP than stand
on principle and have to fall back on my cell phone's data plan or sip
my latte in internet silence... :-)
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 14:45 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
2008-12-19 14:33 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2008-12-19 14:42 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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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