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Re: [RFC] mac80211: Adhoc WPA-NONE packets lost by mac80211

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On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 17:58 +0800, 李朝明 wrote:
> 	
> 	==============================================================
> 	/*
> 	 * RSNA-protected unicast frames should always be
> 	 * sent with pairwise or station-to-station keys,
> 	 * but for WEP we allow using a key index as well.
> 	 */
> 	if (rx->key &&
> 	    rx->key->conf.cipher != WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_WEP40 &&
> 	    rx->key->conf.cipher != WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_WEP104 &&
> 	    !is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))
> 		rx->key = NULL;	
> 	==============================================================
> 
> 	because not only WEP, but IBSS WPA-NONE will also use Group for both
> receiving
> 	and sending unicast and multicast packets.
> 
> 	So I want to ask, why we can't receive WPA-NONE packets here ? Will
> WPA-NONE 
> 	packets cause other issues ?

Well, we'd have to make this depend on WPA-NONE somehow I think.

Do you have to support WPA-NONE or would you be happy with proper RSN
IBSS, which you can implement now?

johannes

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