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Re: [PATCHv3] mac80211: dynamic wep

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On Wednesday 15 August 2007 08:24, Volker Braun wrote:
> I've wondered for a long time why Cisco chose to use keyidx>0 for WEP
> unicast keys, but I think I finally understand that this is a weird
> feature (8.5.1): In a mixed WEP and TKIP network a WEP key[0] would
> conflict with the TKIP key (which must have keyidx == 0), forcing a dumb
> TKIP STA to downgrade to WEP. (A good TKIP STA would just rely on
> per-STA keys and not have this problem)
>
Hm.. I'm not really convinced that this is the main reason. Can you check and 
see if the keyidx that wpa_supplicant configures and the keyidx used in 
unicast frames are the same?

-Michael Wu

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