Re: IEEE802.1x + STATIC WEP

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 14:41 -0600, Mario Medina wrote:
>> Hi! I have in my office a uncommon configuration of the network, weuse
>> IEEE802.1x keymanagement with TLS and static WEP keys, is N-M capable
>> of configuring this type of network?
>
> Not at this time; this is the first instance I've heard of this, and
> kinda pointless actually as the WEP key doesn't rotate...
>
> Any idea what AP hardware and RADIUS server is backing your network
> setup?

> Dan

It may be a case of so called transitional setups where both
legacy(WEP) only and WPA are supported. Usually bcast is all in WEP.
Just a guess.
I think Cisco APs can support this
Tomas


>> At this time I do the connection manually with this:
>>
>> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
>> ctrl_interface_group=admin
>> update_config=1
>>
>> network={
>> ssid="wnetwork"
>> key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>> auth_alg=OPEN
>> eap=TLS
>> identity="myusername"
>> password="mypassword"
>> ca_cert="/etc/network/cacert.pem"
>> client_cert="/etc/network/cert.pem"
>> private_key="/etc/network/key.pem"
>> private_key_passwd="thekeypassword"
>> wep_key0=hex static wep key
>> disabled=0
>> }
>>
>> and it connects. sometimes i need to issue a manual iwconfig to set
>> the key, but at this time i can't find the way to do this with N-M.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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