Re: Shared key authentication in iwconfig?

Joerg Albert wrote:

> could you please shed some light on how to configure shared key auth by
> iwconfig? The man page of iwconfig says:
> 
> 
>>The  security  mode  may  be open or restricted, and its meaning
>>depend on the card used. With most card, in open mode no authen-
>>tication is used and the card may also accept non-encrypted ses-
>>sions, whereas in restricted mode only  encrypted  sessions are
>>accepted and the card will use authentication if available.
> 

I think it depends on AP configuration. Now you mentioned the AP was
accepting non authenticated adaptors but I probably missed it in AP's
configuration. My understanding is that restricted should include
authentication. Otherwise one could simply enable encryption and set it
open system.

> 
> I'd sticked to the point that "restricted" means to accept encrypted
> data packets only and the Berlios driver got a iwpriv command for shared
> key auth. IMHO a card can hardly determine if shared key auth is available
> until the AP refuses to do open system auth.
> What's the common usage of "restricted" among the other drivers?

I found out iwpriv could set authentication after I issued that message
with the suggested patch. Still by following the code trying to figure
out what could be wrong it seemed to me the code that sets restricted is
flawed as open configuration always overrides restricted and I presume
that wasn't the driver author's intention. Of course I might be wrong.
Enter the driver maintainers.

Regards.

Elder.