Patch for replay error in AHDEMO mode madwifi
Jouni Malinen
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Tue Oct 30 08:12:38 PDT 2012
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 03:25:37PM +0100, Kees-Jan Hermans wrote:
> Madwifi can be used to have an ad-hoc crypto mode, using WPA and no key
> management. This is, as far as I know, the only way to use
> wpa_supplicant in ad-hoc mode and have some crypto.
I do not know about madwifi limitations, but wpa_supplicant supports RSN
IBSS.
> Alternatives are
> ad-mode in plain-text or no ad-hoc mode at all. However, the method
> above causes replay messages to appear (and hosts not working) when a
> third host is added to the mesh. To fix this, the patch below, I
> believe, shuts down the replay check.
Out of scope for this mailing list and not really a suitable change in
general since it would break replay detection for non-IBSS cases, too.
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