On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > > BSS defines security setting which defined by key management for
> > > > pairwise and group key + cipher method for both .
> > > > You can run multiple SSIDs over single single BSSID. This is done
> > > > using VLANs
> > >
> > > Actually, we don't support that in mac80211.
> > Last time I worked on AP project it worked. It was older mac hopefully
> > it's not totally broken
> >
> > And the way I understand
> > > VLANs they are simply done by negotiating different group keys with
> > > different groups of stations each forming a VLAN.
> >
> > We are saying the same. That's okay.
>
> Well, you were suggesting the use of multiple SSIDs, which we don't
> support, we only support VLANs within a BSS/single SSID. Not that I've
> been able to test it, hostapd needs radius stuff set up for VLANs...
I think it's transparent since it's handled by MLME in hostapd so
multiple SSID is supported
Maybe we did some minor changes in mac to support that.. Will check again.
I think it's always done by means of VLANs
> Right. I was just saying that the way it currently is I think you could
> detect it that way. b43 simply assumes WEP keys are always 'static'
> which seems to mostly work well in practice.
> I suppose then set_key needs a new argument key_type:
>
> enum ieee80211_key_type {
> KEY_TYPE_PAIRWISE,
> KEY_TYPE_GROUP,
> KEY_TYPE_TXONLY, /* group key in an AP */
Can we drop it? Hm still not sure why you like it so much.
> KEY_TYPE_STATIC,
> }
>
> where the MAC address pointer would only be non-NULL when the key type
> is PAIRWISE, and STATIC can only be used for WEP keys.
>
Do you know anything about mesh security are we breaking here anything?
Thanks
Tomas
> johannes
>
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