HT rates with WEP/TKIP

Jouni Malinen j
Thu Jul 15 10:33:40 PDT 2010


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:36:14PM +0900, Hector Akamine wrote:

> Is the transmission of frames at HT rates with WEP/TKIP controlled
> (enabled/disabled) by hostapd/wpa_supplicant, or is it controlled at
> the driver level?

hostapd/wpa_supplicant can configure the ciphers, i.e., prevent WEP/TKIP
from being selected, but the actual rate selection would happen
somewhere in the kernel (not necessarily in the driver, though) or
device firmware.

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