From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostapd: remove use of ieee80211_msg_wep_frame_unknown_key
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:45:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187174759.3998.8.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070815033555.GI1415@jm.kir.nu>
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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:35 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> This feature was originally used to allow a station to be disassociated
> if it seemed to be using incorrect keys.
Makes sense, this is a bit icky.
> However, this was causing
> interoperability issues with some client implementations and the code
> was eventually commented out and this was only used to update a dot11
> MIB counters. Consequently, I did not see much point in integrating it
> into hostapd and we might as well just remove the TODO item completely
> from hostapd.
I'm not sure whether it'd be worth it going forward anyway, with WEP
deployments hopefully going down.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-10 21:29 [PATCH] hostapd: remove use of ieee80211_msg_wep_frame_unknown_key Johannes Berg
2007-08-15 3:35 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-08-15 10:45 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-08-16 1:50 ` Jouni Malinen
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