IEEE 802.11i/D9.0 diffs with IEEE 802.11i/D3.0 ?

[Stephan Schlumbohm]

Jim,

sorry little typo - it is of course IEEE 802.11i/D9.0 aka RSN aka WPA2.

Stephan 

-----Original Message-----
From: hostap-bounces+stephan.schlumbohm=tu-harburg.de at shmoo.com
[mailto:hostap-bounces+stephan.schlumbohm=tu-harburg.de at shmoo.com] On Behalf
Of Stephan Schlumbohm
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:17 AM
To: hostap at shmoo.com
Subject: RE: IEEE 802.11i/D9.0 diffs with IEEE 802.11i/D3.0 ?

Jim,

IEEE 802.11i/D3.0 is WPA (WPA-Personal and WPA-Enterpise). It is announced
in the beacons as WPA IE.

IEEE 802.11i/D7.0 is WPA2 (WPA2-Personal and WPA2-Enterprise). It is
announced in the beacons as RSN IE. 

IEEE 802.11i/D3.0 aka WPA and IEEE 802.11i/D7.0 aka WPA2 are different and
not compatible. Both can use either TKIP or AES-CCMP.

It is recommended to use WPA2 over WPA because WPA2 aka RSN aka 802.11i/D7.0
uses a more robust protocol and has certain advantages over WPA (e.g.
PKMSA-caching).

Stephan

-----Original Message-----
From: hostap-bounces+stephan.schlumbohm=tu-harburg.de at shmoo.com
[mailto:hostap-bounces+stephan.schlumbohm=tu-harburg.de at shmoo.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Howard
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:46 AM
To: hostap at shmoo.com
Subject: IEEE 802.11i/D9.0 diffs with IEEE 802.11i/D3.0 ?

In testing various routers and adapter cards I have found that only a few
cards will work with the Netgear model WPN824 RangeMax router.  This router
is said to use MIMO technology with 7 smart antennas.  

This router has a 'WPA2 Personal' mode.  I find only a few adapter cards can
connect to this router when it is in this mode.  For those that do,
wpa_supplicant reports "RSN: using IEEE 802.11i/D9.0".  When this and other
routers are placed in what I thought was the normal WPA2 mode by specifying
WPA-PSK with AES only then wpa_supplicant reports "WPA: using IEEE
802.11i/D3.0".

Does anyone know the difference between the D3.0 and D9.0 modes, and also
what if any differences there are in the AP beacons for these two modes?

Thanks

Jim Howard

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