On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:01:39AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:36 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > > If we want to support hardware crypto for broadcast traffic on AP VLAN > > interfaces we'd either need to switch to per station GTKs or need to > > make drivers aware of VLAN interfaces. Not sure if it's worth it. > > > > At least current rt2x00 devices won't be able to support that due to > > the limited amount of available key space. > Hmm, good point. Jouni, any comments? Lennert maybe? I haven't looked at how the per-STA GTKs interface would apply here, but since the broadcast keys are only used for TX, having multiple keys should not be much of an issue for drivers that have similar design to ath9k/ath5k as long as we can convince the driver to assign different hw_key_idx for each key. So yes, there will need to be some knowledge of different AP VLAN context to allow this to happen. Anyway, I would not be too worried about starting with forced sw crypto for broadcast/multicast frames in any other vif than the first one and considering optimizations later should someone care enough. -- 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
