On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:44:14PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > After some more research I have a similar question for the RX path. > The device will strip the IV out of the ieee80211 frame but provides > the IV/EIV seperately in the descriptor. > > Would it be any added value to instead of setting the RX_FLAG_IV_STRIPPED > flag the IV is reinserted into the frame, provide the IV/EIV seperately in > struct ieee80211_rx_status, or simply set RX_FLAG_IV_STRIPPED and ignore > the entire field? Yes, I would highly recommend delivering IV/EIV to mac80211 so that replay protection can be implemented properly. This is required if the hardware/firmware does not have full implementation of replay protection (including support for multiple access categories in case QoS is used). -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
