From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 13 11:41:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4705837B404 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 11:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g4DIf3808603; Mon, 13 May 2002 11:41:03 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:41:03 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Nick Sayer Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HostAP mode ROCKS!!! ...and a small suggestion Message-ID: <20020513114057.A24894@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3CDFD8CE.1040300@quack.kfu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CDFD8CE.1040300@quack.kfu.com>; from nsayer@quack.kfu.com on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:16:30AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:16:30AM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: > I'd like an explanation, if I may, of what the 'authmode' setting in=20 > ifconfig does. I can't really see any effect. Last I checked, nothing with wi cards. Basicly, it's a rather broken method of allowing APs and hosts to authenticate. Just about everything uses Open which means the AP just accepts everyone. A few things use Shared which use some really braindead shared secret system which according to the Cisco AP docs, exposes the secret on the wire rendering it worthless. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84Ai2XY6L6fI4GtQRAh7hAJ97s1JBSbp9UEfy+4g1CSbQU9mXMgCfYHK9 nI/rUChcLLYVSgW+dQaZ/d0= =4zo+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message