Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Clarence <c5666305@hkstar.com>]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dan Harnett wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:25:14 +0800 (HKT)
> Clarence <c5666305@hkstar.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I just test the WEP option of wicontrol between openbsd-3.0 and
> > openbsd-current.  The two system are both i386 and similar cannot
> > communicate when the WEP is on.  I had tested that win98 and OpenBSD-3.0
> > can communicate with each other even the WEP is on.  Is there a problem of
> > openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current when WEP is on ?  Here is my wicontrol
> > output of openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current. Any idea ?  Thanks.
> 
> Is there any problem when WEP is off?

When WEP is off, there is no problem between the openbsd-3.0 and
openbsd-current.  When WEP is on, there is no problem between
openbsd-current and openbsd-current station. 

> 
> > ======= OpenBSD-3.0 ==========
> [...]
> > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 1 ]
> [...]
> > ======== openbsd-current ===========
> [...]
> > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 1 ]
> [...]
> 
> Do you have a base station?  If not, you need to set the port type to 3.
> 

I forgot if I had tried both the base station and the client station to
port type 3 or not.

> Running the latest snapshot, I've noticed that I have had to cycle the
> interface down, and then up (ifconfig) in order for some changes with
> wicontrol to take affect.  This wasn't necessary in 3.0, and I'm not
> sure at this point if a bug was introduced to -current.
> 
> Also, you should note that IPsec is a better choice than WEP, as WEP can
> be broken (see mail archives, security lists, etc).
> 

Yes, agree.  Any pointer to setup the VPN through IPSec under the
environment of the following diagram.

dsl <--> OBSD-GW (base) <--> wireless station (OBSD, win98, XP ...)
             |
             +----> HUB <--> (OBSD, winME, ...)

Thanks

Clarence