On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 09:50 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > I modified the meaning of RESTRICTED/OPEN a few years ago to control the > WEP auth mode, for a few reasons... First, some fullmac drivers already > used it to mean WEP auth mode. Second, there was no other mechanism to > control WEP auth mode at the time, and there were a lot of Shared Key > installations around. Third, WE-18/WPA was nowhere near being landed, > and it was only supported by one driver (hostap), and it was the only > thing that would plausibly support WEP auth mode via SIWAUTH. Fourth, > only hostap and maybe airo really implemented the refuse-non-encoded > anyway. But didn't update the header file ;) > TBH, SK is nice because it tells you that the WEP key is wrong > *immediately*, and the only reason NM doesn't use SK by default (and > then fall back to OS) like the original Mac Airport drivers did is that > WEXT simply cannot return reliable association error information. Hah. Well, we could have that now, but I suspect SK is no longer common enough to put a lot of work into it. > But in the end, we still need a mechanism with WEXT to be able to set SK > auth when associating. We still have that, with WE18, in IW_AUTH_80211_AUTH_ALG. And mac80211 never actually supported _setting_ the WEP auth mechanism with RESTRICTED/OPEN, only _getting_ that information. johannes
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