Re: NM and WEP

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:25 +0000, Volker Braun wrote:
>> Your WEP password is wrong. A glaring design flaw of WEP is that it does 
>> not give any feedback on whether the password is correct or not. 
> 
> Right; NM basically has to try to run DHCP and (after 40s) timeout the
> connection attempt, because there's no indication that the key is wrong.
> 
> Be _sure_ you have the right type of passphrase.  The other flaw in WEP
> is that there are 3 key lengths (40, 104, and 152 bit) and 3 different
> passphrase hashes (hex, ascii, and passphrase).  There's also the Open
> System and Shared Key auth methods.  You must get all of those correct,
> otherwise the connection will not succeed.
> 
> WEP sucks.

I've found that no system seems to care whether you select open system
or shared key. Perhaps I always leave it on open. I've never seen
anyplace to set this on the other end, though, so I'm really in the dark
about what it does.

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