On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > what exactly is the point of having a wep key shared by 2000 people. > > I didn't mean it for data confidentiality; I meant it for building the > wires W in WEP not for the P privacy. Basically one such W for ietf and > one for aodv. > > We've noticed that setting both the essid and the key helps a lot with > the automatic detection various procedures, such as end-user laptops > don't get automatically attached to essid's that happen to be advertised > without keys by other end-users' laptops. I expect you'll get a bounch of nodes in adhoc mode with the ietf5X ssid and the ietf5x wep key as well... > > except to have another thing for people to screw up when they try and > > type it in our paste it. thereby increasing the support overhead at > > the help desk. > > Yes, I understand that talking in terms of 2000 actual people is > different than in terms of 20some hosts we're using. > > Alex > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2