Wireless interface says privacy OFF

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/22/09, Steven Friedrich <freebsd at insightbb.com> wrote:
> What does "privacy" mean and why isn't it explained in any man page?
>
> Here's my ifconfig:
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	ether 00:14:a5:2a:a5:db
> 	inet 192.168.2.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
> 	status: associated
> 	ssid FriedrichAir channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:17:3f:f1:3d:50
> 	country US authmode WPA privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6
> 	mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
>
> This wlan0 is configured to a NDIS wrapped Windows Ethernet driver.
> New in 8.0, the bwi driver supports the same hardware.
> When I get the ifconfig for wlan0 when it's configured for he bwi driver,
> privacy said ON.
>
> What exactly does privacy mean and do I want it ?

Ignore it, if_ndis.c just forgot to set IEEE80211_F_PRIVACY flag.
It set that flag mistakenly only when WEP is enabled.

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Paul B Mahol