Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:43:09 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an: setting WEP keys with ancontrol and ifconfig Message-ID: <20011101124309.A17564@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20011101213138.A7885@cobweb.example.org>; from molter@tin.it on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:31:38PM %2B0100 References: <20011101213138.A7885@cobweb.example.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:31:38PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding the aironet an driver. I am using FreeBSD > -stable. > > I would like a confirmation that I understood correctly the > differences between setting a WEP key with ancontrol and ifconfig. > > WEP keys: > ifconfig: range 1-8, 1-4 temp, 5-8 perm, default is 1 (temp) > ancontrol: range 0-7, odd temp, even perm, default is 0 (perm) > > "default" behaviour is different: > ifconfig an0 wepkey thekey1 # set first temp key > ancontrol -k thekey1 # set first perm key > > is this correct? > > if yes, I think the difference is confusing. I would vote for > ancontrol going the ifconfig way, or at least to set as default the > first perm key instead of the first perm key. The default in both cases is the first key. If there is a temp key it is used if not the permanent key is. Actually, the default has nothing to do with the program you use to view it. It's a driver attribute. ancontrol will probably just lose support for functionality covered by ifconfig in 5.0. The behavior will not change in 4.x. -- Brooks -- 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE74bPcXY6L6fI4GtQRAmlpAKDSLXRumrQPiFUDxtnyIJoXL1WbWACgyv6B iV2ZbZDWUG04kXhvYjNmKT8= =tKM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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