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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Use sw crypto for GTKs on AP VLAN interfaces

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Am Donnerstag 18 November 2010 schrieb Johannes Berg:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:36 +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > That means, broadcast traffic to and from stations associated to an AP
> > VLAN interface is encrypted and decrypted in software whereas broadcast
> > traffic to and from stations associated to the non-VLAN AP interface is
> > encrypted end decrypted in hardware.
> 
> Minor nit: bcast traffic from stations is never decrypted by these keys
> since stations never send real bcast frames -- just remove the decyrpted
> part and "from stations" part :-)

Ah, yes, you're right. I'll update the comment accordingly ...

Helmut
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