On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 18:21 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote: > On Wed January 26 2011 17:29:48 Johannes Berg wrote: > > 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 :-) > > No, i'm talking about the combination of HW encryption in ath5k and mac80211. > I never tested mac80211 software WEP alone with multiple VIFs. But wasn't Jouni saying that ath9k currently uses SW crypto so that it doesn't have to worry about any of this -- and that that would be broken? johannes -- 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
