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

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On Thu January 27 2011 14:51:05 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:06:02PM +0530, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > On Wed January 26 2011 18:37:00 Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:38:53AM +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > > > Even without my patch, WEP does not work with multiple vifs.
> > > 
> > > Are you sure about that?
> > 
> > Yes, I'm sure. Please test it yourself, if you don't believe me. :)
> > I'm using ath5k, not ath9k, BTW.
> 
> Using a key cache entry without seeing it's availability would
> certainly break multi vif operation with WEP in at least one
> interface. Did you test the following
> 
> 1. Associate sta vif1 with TKIP and
> 2. Bring up ap vif2 with WEP and configure the key at index 1.
> 
> With your patch, the AP wep key would probably override the GTK of STA
> interface.

Ok, right. I have to admit that i did not think about this case and just about 
multiple AP interfaces. So please just drop my patch for now.

bruno
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