Re: WEP Encryption Changes

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 16:43 -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:27 -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>What is odd is the ifconfig options using 'deftxkey' looks the same as
> >>using 'weptxkey'. However, from my attempts to use deftxkey it doesn't
> >>have the same underlying effect on the encrption. I tried a few times to
> >>use this option to set my Tx key but it never seemed to work. Then when I
> >>tried using weptxkey it worked the first time. Now, that isn't to say they
> >>don't have the same outcome. My wireless card seems to have a few quirks
> >>that pop up every now and then, especially if you do a lot of settings
> >>changing, and deftxkey not working might have been one of those times.
> > 
> > 
> > FWIW -- at the time I have encountered this (mid-to-late December?), I
> > have played with Prism 2 cards (wi), 2 different Broadcom cards (ndis)
> > and one Atheros 5212 (ath). For all four of them adding 'weptxkey 1' to
> > ifconfig got me connected and adding 'deftxkey 1' did not.
> > 
> > I do not have most of these cards any more, but with my Prism 2 card(wi)
> > and yesterday's -current I get connected whether I use weptxkey or
> > deftxkey.
> > 
> 
>  From sbin/ifconfig/ifieee80211.c:
> 
>          DEF_CMD_ARG("deftxkey",         set80211weptxkey),
>          DEF_CMD_ARG("weptxkey",         set80211weptxkey),
> 
> i.e. deftxkey and weptxkey execute identical code.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
Thank you very much for clarification. Was not the case back in December
though:

        Revision 1.14 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Fri
        Dec 31 19:39:25 2004 UTC (5 weeks ago) by sam 
        Branch: MAIN 
        Changes since 1.13: +11 -1 lines
        Diff to previous 1.13 (colored) 
        
        o accept deftxkey as a synonym for weptxkey since that is what
        is
          printed for status (allows cut&paste)
        o accept undef for the deftxkey/weptxkey so you can reset state
        
        Requested by:phk

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)