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Re: WPA in ad-hoc mode with carl9170

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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:31:47PM +0200, thus spake Christian Lamparter:
> Note: there's a special bit [RX_MAC_CONTROL - bit 6] which instructs the key
> cache controller to do the "key security settings" lookup with addr2 for all
> bc/mc frames. If we enable this bit and modify carl9170_op_set_key to set the
> per station gtk correctly [i.e.: use sta->addr as MAC and put the keys into
> the per-sta space [0-63?]] we should be able to enable PER_STA_GTK...
> although the driver will be restricted to a single vif [I think].

If I understand correctly, by PER_STA_GTK you mean a different encryption key
for each one-hop neighbor.  It happens to be unnecessary in my case as one
"ad-hoc-global" encryption key would be enough.

> you should try your setup with mac80211_hwsim first [so we can rule out all
> driver bugs].

Good idea indeed.  I'll do that as soon as possible.

Thanks.

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