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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@mail.aitel.hist.no>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reproducible association with wrong essid, iwl3945
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:53:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205160801.3347.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D508A5.6090805@mail.aitel.hist.no>

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:08 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Get a normal association so the network works. (WEP encryption)
> $ iwconfig wlan0 nonexistent_essid key s:correct_key
> 
> The network keeps working!  I would expect the driver to look
> for an access point with the different essid, and fail
> if no such access point exists.
> Two different networks with the same encryption string is possible, 
> after all.

Should definitely fail, disassociate, and send the SIOCSIWAP event with
00:00:00:00:00:00 via wireless_send_event().

Dan



  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-10 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-10 10:08 reproducible association with wrong essid, iwl3945 Helge Hafting
2008-03-10 14:53 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2008-03-10 20:49   ` Helge Hafting

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