wi(4) and shared authmode
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Tue May 25 10:00:16 PDT 2004
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:58 pm, Martin wrote:
> Am Tue, den 25.05.2004 schrieb Josh Elsasser um 2:35:
> > You could always use IPSEC. It's a bit more work to get up and
> > running, but you can rest easy knowing you have actual security.
>
> Yes, but many people don't even want that someone can connect
> to their AP. They try to setup authmode or at least WEP.
> I've turned on WEP and IPsec here, because of samba.
> It broadcasts itself and it's not getting tunneled this way.
> Has anyone a solution to this? (I mean: getting the
> broadcast encrypted, not splitting the networks)
WPA/802.11i encrypts all non-PAE traffic. It's also easy to add an option to
discard all unencrypted traffic. This is necessary for supporting WPA anyway
(except for PAE traffic used for the initial key exchange msgs).
Sam
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