Hi Halton,
I believe that Solaris (it's not specific to NWAM) only supports 64-bit WEP at
the moment, at least that's what is documented in the dladm manpage under
create-secobj:
Currently, the classes wep and wpa are supported. The
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key can be either 5 or 13
bytes long. It can be provided either as an ASCII or
hexadecimal string -- thus, 12345" and "0x3132333435 are
equivalent 5-byte keys (the 0x prefix can be omitted). A
file containing a WEP key must consist of a single line
using either WEP key format. The WPA (Wi-Fi Protected
Access) key must be provided as an ASCII string with a
length between 8 and 63 bytes.
But I think it's much more likely to depend on what our drivers are capable of
too.
>From my readings[1] 256-bit WEP is not standard, and is limited to specific
>vendors.
If you really want a higher level of security, I think WPA[2] might be what you
want, this is also supported on Solaris and NWAM now, and supports up to
256-bit, AFAIK.
Thanks,
Darren.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access
Halton Huo wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> As title, I set 64-bit WEP on my AP, my OpenSolaris(b99) is able to
> connect. When I switch to 128-bit WEP on AP, my box can not connect. (I
> input the 26 hex string in the dialog).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Halton.
>
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