wpa_supplicant and rekeying, dynamic WEP

Zdenek Pizl zdenek.pizl
Mon Jun 21 07:57:53 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 15:21, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:53:23PM +0200, Zdenek Pizl wrote:
> 
> >  I've notice that wpa_supplicant 0.2.2 does not do rekeying in EAP/TLS
> > mode. My AP (Orinoco AP600) has set rekeying interval to 900 seconds,
> > but there is no change in  key according to iwconfig wlan0. 
> > 
> > What did I miss in the configuration?
> 
> If you have the first authentication working, rekeying is supposed to
> work. However, I have to admit I have not tested this at all. I will
> need to do some more testing to find out what could be causing this.

I assume this is an issue according to the iwconfig output:

first authentication:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"OURNETWORK"  Nickname:"mycomputer"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: "MACaddress of AP"  Bit
Rate:11Mb/s
          Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:110C-17E6-70   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:72/70  Signal level:-22 dBm  Noise level:-94 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:144  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:35   Missed beacon:0

after 25 minutes (no reauth visible in radius logs):
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"OURNETWORK"  Nickname:"mycomputer"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: "MACaddress of AP"  Bit
Rate:11Mb/s
          Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:110C-17E6-70   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:72/70  Signal level:-22 dBm  Noise level:-94 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:144  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:551   Missed beacon:0

As you can see, the line Encryption key is the same. From it I assume
that rekeying/reauth is not working. Is that idea correct?

z.p.

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