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Date:      Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:43:07 +0100
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless adapter associated, rx ok, tx ko
Message-ID:  <20080229124307.GC94339@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <47C77915.7050804@errno.com>
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Sam,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:16:37PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
>  Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.  You are right indeed.  It was not obvious to me
> > that I should set a tx keyid manually, partly because when setting the
> > WEP key, ifconfig(8) assumes key 1 if no index is specified.
> > Would it be correct to set the default tx keyid to 1?  On the contrary,
> > I will provide an update to the manpage stating setting the default tx
> > keyid is mandatory.
> 
>  Yes, it seems the man page doesn't call out that you need to setup a 
>  deftxkey in order for outbound traffic to be encrypted when using WEP. If 
>  you use wpa_supplicant it will do that for you.
> 
>  Please send me something for ifconfig(8).

You will find a diff against the ifconfig(8) manpage attached.  Feel
free to reword what you feel necessary, as I'm not a native english
speaker.

Thank you.
Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >

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Index: sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /mnt/space/freebsd-cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8,v
retrieving revision 1.145
diff -u -r1.145 ifconfig.8
--- sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8	10 Dec 2007 02:31:00 -0000	1.145
+++ sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8	29 Feb 2008 12:40:31 -0000
@@ -777,7 +777,8 @@
 To disable 802.11h use
 .Fl doth .
 .It Cm deftxkey Ar index
-Set the default key to use for transmission.
+Set the default key to use for transmission, which is mandatory
+for full duplex operation.
 Typically this is only set when using WEP encryption.
 The
 .Cm weptxkey
@@ -1236,11 +1237,15 @@
 .Cm mixed .
 Modes are case insensitive.
 .It Cm weptxkey Ar index
-Set the WEP key to be used for transmission.
+Set the WEP key to be used for transmission, which is mandatory
+for full duplex operation.
 This is the same as setting the default transmission key with
 .Cm deftxkey .
 .It Cm wepkey Ar key Ns | Ns Ar index : Ns Ar key
 Set the selected WEP key.
+Yet using
+.Cm deftxkey
+is required for full duplex operation.
 If an
 .Ar index
 is not given, key 1 is set.

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