[rt2x00-users] [rt2800pci (AP) - ath9k] 802.11w: broken aggregation handling?

Johannes Berg johannes
Mon May 7 23:34:24 PDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 08:28 +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:

> This means for rt2x00: to get 11w working with hw encryption enabled,
> there needs to be some differentiation for the encryption of management
> frames: if management frame, let mac80211 do the job - all other frames
> should be encrypted by hw.
> Correct?

That might not be sufficient -- you might have control over TX, but if
the hardware attempts to decrypt encrypted mgmt frames you're out of
luck entirely.

johannes




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