Optional WPA and RSN

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Tue May 17 19:56:33 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 04:31:23PM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:

> >In order for this to work reliably with all client implementations, the
> >AP would need to be sending out multiple beacon frames (one for each
> >security mode; usually called "multiple BSSID" or "virtual AP"). This
> >would need additional functionality from the card firmware/driver and
> >unfortunately, the current Prism2/2.5/3 firmware does not support it.

> there are prism2/2.5/3 firmware variants that do, but they're not 
> commonly available.

Yes, I know. And should one actually become publicly available with some
documentation, I would expect to see support added into Host AP driver
quite rapidly ;-).

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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