> The IEEE 802.11 name for this would be "default key". IEEE 802.1X (or > well, RFC 3580 is the authoritative specification for this) calls it > "broadcast (default key)". Please note that this is not really a key > that is always used both for unicast and broadcast. If there is a > key-mapping key (unicast/individual) for the matching > transmitter/receiver addresses, that key will be used instead. The "old > WEP key" way of using only statically configured default keys just does > not set the key-mapping key and because of that, the default key ends up > being used for all frames (or well, one of the possible four default > keys). That agrees with what I did in mac80211, but not with Intel's hardware. johannes
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