From: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
To: ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 6/6] ath: Fix WEP hardware encryption
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:21:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101261821.09481.br1@einfach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296030588.3635.12.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Wed January 26 2011 17:29:48 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:38 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > Even without my patch, WEP does not work with multiple vifs.
> > (As far as i understand it, with WEP the lookup is just done based on the
> > key index in the WLAN header field. mac80211 (or is it hostapd?) sets up
> > both keys for both interfaces with a key index of 0, which causes the
> > lookup to go to the same key for both vifs. I guess mac80211 or hostapd
> > would need to be changed to use different key indices for different vif
> > WEP keys, but then of course we can only use 4 different WEP keys in
> > sum, and not 4 different WEP keys per vif. No big deal imho.)
>
> Are you saying software WEP in mac80211 is broken with multiple VIFs? I
> find that hard to believe :-)
No, i'm talking about the combination of HW encryption in ath5k and mac80211.
I never tested mac80211 software WEP alone with multiple VIFs.
bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 4:15 [PATCH 1/6] ath5k: ath5k_setup_channels cleanup and whitespace Bruno Randolf
2011-01-25 4:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] ath5k: Use local variable for capabilities Bruno Randolf
2011-01-25 4:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] ath: Add function to check if 4.9GHz channels are allowed Bruno Randolf
2011-01-25 4:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] ath5k: Enable 802.11j 4.9GHz frequencies Bruno Randolf
2011-01-25 4:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] ath9k: Remove unused IEEE80211_WEP_NKID Bruno Randolf
2011-01-25 4:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] ath: Fix WEP hardware encryption Bruno Randolf
2011-01-25 18:32 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-01-26 2:38 ` Bruno Randolf
2011-01-26 8:29 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-26 9:21 ` Bruno Randolf [this message]
2011-01-26 9:23 ` [ath5k-devel] " Johannes Berg
2011-01-26 9:37 ` Jouni Malinen
2011-01-26 10:36 ` Bruno Randolf
2011-01-27 5:51 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2011-01-27 9:19 ` Bruno Randolf
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