Re: AirPort Extreme version 3.1 & compatibility

Sure does look like yet another buffer overflow being tweaked by the 
airport extreme:

bsd-airtools:

- [0:90:4b:80:b5:c5 <- 0:3:93:e8:80:DA <- 0:90:4b:80:b5:c5]
- port: 7 ts: 490.107636 3:44 10:0
- sn: 6672 (c1:e2:f5:42:71:14) len: 13
   - ** mgmt-auth ** algo: open seq: 1

- [0:3:93:e8:80:da <- 46:51:4b:80:b5:C5 <- 0:90:4b:80:b5:c5]
- port: 7 ts: 490.108171 3:57 10:0
- sn: 10736 (34:78:15:1d:8:0) len: 37
   - ** ctl-ack **

You can see the first two bytes of the second mac address in the second 
packet corrupt :/

I'm diving into the 4.x hostap driver in hopes that this is another 
easy fix, but if anyone else has already done this please drop me a 
note.

Cheers,
Cliff

On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 17:24 US/Pacific, Cliff Skolnick wrote:

> In addition to letting you just plug in a broadcom card and be off an 
> running, v3.1 seems to have broken interoperability with hostap mode 
> in 4.x and broadcom clients (including apple's own airport extreme).  
> 5.1-current seems to be fine.
>
> I've just spent 2 weeks at apple wwdc helping with the build out of 
> the wifi for the conference and met many of the folks at apple doing 
> wifi stuff.  I'm going to dump a box with a freebsd based ap software 
> (surf and sip) and was wondering if anyone else wanted to get me an 
> image of there AP.  This box will likely live at apple and be tested 
> against for future driver releases so this is a good opportunity.
>
> Hopefully this will help with these issues in the future.
>
> Cheers,
> Cliff
>
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