When I set AP like WEP/OPEN or WEP/SHARED , How Can I get AuthMode from IE Codes or anyway else?

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:56 +0800, Anson_Luo at cn.alphanetworks.com wrote:
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> Dear Dan: 
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>         I got it, Thanks very much!  I am a novice in wireless
> networks. I learn it since last week.Thanks for your help. 

No problem.  The simple answer is "WEP is horrible".  Not just from a
security standpoint.

Dan


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> Dan Williams
> <dcbw at redhat.com> 
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> 2009-12-01 15:59 
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>         Subject:
>  Re: When I set AP like
> WEP/OPEN or
> WEP/SHARED , How Can I
> get AuthMode from IE
> Codes or anyway else?
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> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:23 +0800, Anson_Luo at cn.alphanetworks.com
> wrote:
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> > ALL here: 
> >         I have a question that let me puzzle: 
> > When I set AP like WEP/OPEN or WEP/SHARED ,How Can I get AuthMode
> from
> > IE Codes or anyway else? 
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> You cannot.  Open/Shared is simply not present in the AP's beacon.  It
> is a deficiency of WEP, which WPA fixed by only allowing open
> authentication for WPA connections.  There is simply no way to tell
> whether an AP is using shared auth or open system auth because a WEP
> AP
> never broadcasts that information.
> 
> Either the user has to specify the WEP authentication mode explicitly,
> or the supplicant/driver must first try Shared Key first, and then
> Open
> System when/if the AP reports that SK is not available (using 802.11
> status code 13, "Requested authentication algorithm not supported").
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> Dan
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