Hi,
The reason I'm not very keen on updating hostap drivers is stability. It took a lot of time to find a combination of hostap driver patches/firmware which are stable under any kind of load.
I'm not against adding new hostap driver, but that needs to be done as an option instead of the current one (not replacement), by somebody who can spend time and resources on testing.
Sancho2k.net Lists wrote:
Vladimir Ivaschenko wrote:
To be honest I never looked into WPA. It would be nice to have, however from what I understand it requires quite elaborate infrastructure on both server and client end.
Also seeing how people struggle with WPA on various lists doesn't make me feel it is very stable currently. :-)
To a degree, there are some difficulties with it from time to time. For the most part, it is well supported under the situations most people use it under, which is with Apple clients in OSX and Windows XP clients. No other Windows versions support WPA without commercial 3rd party utilities (that I can find anyway). Linux support is available, although you either have to use the hostap related utilities (Prism II cards only) or the Linuxant drivers (again, IIRC.). The difficulties you see may be people using cards with chipsets that won't support WPA in Linux/BSD/whatever.
This brings up the point though; we use PrismII cards so that we can support HostAP mode for the APs, and adding in support for the WPA authenticator isn't a far stretch. The same author makes the hostap-drivers, hostap-utils, and hostap software. He also makes the wpa_supplicant software and the authenticator. (Basically, its all there.) The catch is, you need current enough firmware on your card (update to 1.7.4 - quite stable IMHO), and current enough hostap-drivers (I use the latest release.) This is to get the WPA, TKIP, and AES support. I have used it successfully to connect my Linux laptop at work to our WPA wireless infrastructure (802.1x, PEAP/MSCHAPv2 against a Windoze IAS RADIUS server.) Anyway, even support for WPA/PSK would be nice. WPA provides the security that WEP lacks, making it more attractive for "serious" installations.
I think it would be a very nice edition. And it probably wouldn't take much more than bumping the version of the hostap-drivers to current, adding in the authenticator package, and some usage notes.
On the other hand, 802.11i just took official status, didn't it? Maybe it would be easier to wait for compatible hardware, specs, and resources to hit the market. But that doesn't help those of us with existing a/b/g hardware... :)
DS
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