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Re: [PATCH 6/6] ath: Fix WEP hardware encryption

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On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:38 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:

> Even without my patch, WEP does not work with multiple vifs. 
> (As far as i understand it, with WEP the lookup is just done based on the key 
> index in the WLAN header field. mac80211 (or is it hostapd?) sets up both keys 
> for both interfaces with a key index of 0, which causes the lookup to go to 
> the same key for both vifs. I guess mac80211 or hostapd would need to be 
> changed to use different key indices for different vif WEP keys, but then of 
> course we can only use 4 different WEP keys in sum, and not 4 different WEP 
> keys per vif. No big deal imho.)

Are you saying software WEP in mac80211 is broken with multiple VIFs? I
find that hard to believe :-)

johannes

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