From: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
To: ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 6/6] ath: Fix WEP hardware encryption
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:21:09 +0900
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
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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