Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:51839 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755553AbYCQX0e (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:26:34 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so6615404wah.23 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240803171626y33571613ud1c809159da711af@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080317_232644_967650_8E8F6F4A) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:26:33 +0200 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Dan Williams" Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: allows driver to request a Phase 2 key Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "Reinette Chatre" , "Emmanuel Grumbach" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <1205788005.9583.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1205366762-12828-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1ba2fa240803161721q5d01bve2292f99d3fe9eb8@mail.gmail.com> <1205747912.1614.19.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240803170320i4805e055ofebbbd9928a59354@mail.gmail.com> <1205751455.1614.25.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240803170540n2e6fb398p84abfb34e4124042@mail.gmail.com> <1205758276.1614.45.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240803170636t6158c0a8vb180f71352208548@mail.gmail.com> <1205761758.1614.79.camel@johannes.berg> <1205788005.9583.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > So the problem with this is, how does Dynamic WEP work here? Dynamic > WEP uses 802.1x/EAP to rekey stations periodically just like > WPA[2]-Enterprise, but of courses uses WEP only. It's not "static" WEP > as you guys have been talking about it (you could call static WEP > "WEP-PSK" if you like). > > The problem here is that with WEXT, there's not a good way to > distinguish between the two. Both static & dynamic WEP might look the > same to the driver when the call comes through SIWENCODE/SIWENCODEEXT. > So you've got to be careful here classifying all WEP key requests as > static. Yes this two are not enough you need also specify the the key management method via SIWEAUTH . Tomas