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Subject: Re: Master mode support in iwlagn?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
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	Erwin Van de Velde <erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com>,
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	Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 19:00:31 +0200
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On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 18:52 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> > The problem with Ad-Hoc as "hotspot" is that many devices like Android
> > phones simply ignore adhoc networks due to security issues (as stupid as
> > that may be, since anyone can set up an AP-mode network too).  Which is
> > why real AP mode is nice, but clearly not all wifi hardware is going to
> > support it.
> 
> the security issue is the missing proper encryption for IBSS networks.
> Even while in theory you can have RSN, but who is really supporting this
> on the other end.

We are actually supporting this now, and supposedly it interoperates
with Windows too :-)

johannes