Static wep keys not set

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Tue, April 3, 2007 10:17, Rodolfo Giometti said:

> I'm trying to set up static WEP keys with the following hostapd-0.5.7
> configuration file:

After digging hostapd code I found that the problem is that the WEP key is set
_before_ enabling privacy. Here my patch:

--- hostapd.c.orig      2006-12-10 04:13:35.000000000 +0100
+++ hostapd.c   2007-04-03 11:51:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -671,6 +671,12 @@
        if (hapd->conf->ssid.wep.default_len)
                return 0;

+       if (hostapd_set_privacy(hapd, 1)) {
+               wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "Could not set PrivacyInvoked "
+                          "for interface %s", hapd->conf->iface);
+               return -1;
+       }
+
        for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
                if (hapd->conf->ssid.wep.key[i] &&
                    hostapd_set_encryption(iface, hapd, "WEP", NULL,
--- ieee802_1x.c.orig   2006-12-24 20:21:56.000000000 +0100
+++ ieee802_1x.c        2007-04-03 11:27:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -1668,8 +1668,7 @@

                if (hapd->default_wep_key == NULL)
                        return -1;
-       } else
-               hostapd_set_privacy(hapd, 0);
+       }

        return 0;
 }

Also ieee802_1x_init() should not disable privacy if it is not used otherwise
it will disable static WEB.

Is that solution correct?

Regards,

Rodolfo

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