[PATCH] HostAP/Cisco VPN compatibility

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Sun Dec 1 17:51:38 PST 2002


On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:54:15PM -0800, Cyrus Behroozi wrote:

> I finally discovered why my laptop could connect fine to our VPN using
> Cisco and Lucent wireless cards but not with its built-in PRISM card
> running HostAP. The Cisco-supplied VPN client was objecting to devices
> that weren't named "ethX"!
> 
> Attached is a patch for the 2002-12-01 CVS driver.

So, Cisco VPN client does not work over PPP either? I would suggest
patching that client and not Host AP driver. If you need to work around
this, I would agree with Vladimir. Please, just rename the interface
after Host AP driver has initialized it. This does not need any extra
code in the driver.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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