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Re: [PATCH] hostapd: remove use of ieee80211_msg_wep_frame_unknown_key

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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:35 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> This feature was originally used to allow a station to be disassociated
> if it seemed to be using incorrect keys. 

Makes sense, this is a bit icky.

> However, this was causing
> interoperability issues with some client implementations and the code
> was eventually commented out and this was only used to update a dot11
> MIB counters. Consequently, I did not see much point in integrating it
> into hostapd and we might as well just remove the TODO item completely
> from hostapd.

I'm not sure whether it'd be worth it going forward anyway, with WEP
deployments hopefully going down.

johannes

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