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Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: allows driver to request a Phase 2 key
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>  > The IEEE 802.11 name for this would be "default key". IEEE 802.1X (or
>  > well, RFC 3580 is the authoritative specification for this) calls it
>  > "broadcast (default key)". Please note that this is not really a key
>  > that is always used both for unicast and broadcast. If there is a
>  > key-mapping key (unicast/individual) for the matching
>  > transmitter/receiver addresses, that key will be used instead. The "old
>  > WEP key" way of using only statically configured default keys just does
>  > not set the key-mapping key and because of that, the default key ends up
>  > being used for all frames (or well, one of the possible four default
>  > keys).
>
>  That agrees with what I did in mac80211, but not with Intel's hardware.

You wish, you didn't have clue yourself :)

>  johannes
>