Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:25:14 +0800 (HKT)
Clarence <c5666305@hkstar.com> wrote:
> 
> I just test the WEP option of wicontrol between openbsd-3.0 and
> openbsd-current.  The two system are both i386 and similar cannot
> communicate when the WEP is on.  I had tested that win98 and OpenBSD-3.0
> can communicate with each other even the WEP is on.  Is there a problem of
> openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current when WEP is on ?  Here is my wicontrol
> output of openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current. Any idea ?  Thanks.

Is there any problem when WEP is off?

> ======= OpenBSD-3.0 ==========
[...]
> Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 1 ]
[...]
> ======== openbsd-current ===========
[...]
> Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 1 ]
[...]

Do you have a base station?  If not, you need to set the port type to 3.

Running the latest snapshot, I've noticed that I have had to cycle the
interface down, and then up (ifconfig) in order for some changes with
wicontrol to take affect.  This wasn't necessary in 3.0, and I'm not
sure at this point if a bug was introduced to -current.

Also, you should note that IPsec is a better choice than WEP, as WEP can
be broken (see mail archives, security lists, etc).