RE: about 802.11i IBSS support

2006-10-25 Thread Simon Barber
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hong Liu Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:47 PM To: Jouni Malinen Cc: Jiri Benc; netdev Subject: Re: about 802.11i IBSS support On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:48, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:54:41PM +0800, Hong Liu wrote: > > &g

Re: about 802.11i IBSS support

2006-10-25 Thread Hong Liu
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:48, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:54:41PM +0800, Hong Liu wrote: > > > I am reading the 802.11i IBSS spec and > > trying to find if it is OK to add patches to d80211 to support this feature. > > Large parts of this will be outside d80211, but yes, I th

Re: about 802.11i IBSS support

2006-10-25 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:48 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > 1. for the d80211 part: I don't think there will be much efforts. > >We may add a group key to each sta_info for decrypting multicast data > > from that STA. > >And in RX path, we need to add code to select the correct group key

RE: about 802.11i IBSS support

2006-10-25 Thread Simon Barber
: about 802.11i IBSS support On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:54:41PM +0800, Hong Liu wrote: > I am reading the 802.11i IBSS spec and trying to find if it is OK to > add patches to d80211 to support this feature. Large parts of this will be outside d80211, but yes, I think d80211 should be made

Re: about 802.11i IBSS support

2006-10-25 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:54:41PM +0800, Hong Liu wrote: > I am reading the 802.11i IBSS spec and > trying to find if it is OK to add patches to d80211 to support this feature. Large parts of this will be outside d80211, but yes, I think d80211 should be made ready to support this (mainly in the

Re: about 802.11i IBSS support

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 10:54, Hong Liu wrote: > 2. wpa_supplicant: this is the big part, we need to implement the > authenticator >in it. Not sure how much efforts needed? Well, I think that should go together with a merge of wpa_supplicant with hostapd (which I think is desired anyway)