Re: [PATCH] hostapd: remove use of ieee80211_msg_wep_frame_unknown_key

[Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:45:59PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:35 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > 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.

I don't think we can enable the original behavior of disassociating a
station based on use of incorrect key index since it can cause problems
with commonly used clients (well, clients that were commonly used four
years ago ;-) and there are also potential issues with opening yet
another DoS problem. If needed, we could have a MIB counter for the
errors updated, but I'm not too concerned about not having this
available.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA