Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:34:03 GMT From: Thijs Eilander <eilander@paranoid.nl> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/88182: wep is broken in ural(4) hostap mode Message-ID: <200510291534.j9TFY3KK021207@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200510291540.j9TFeE7q054462@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 88182 >Category: misc >Synopsis: wep is broken in ural(4) hostap mode >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 29 15:40:14 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Thijs Eilander >Release: FreeBSD 6.0RC1 >Organization: none >Environment: FreeBSD router.paranoid.nl 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #6: Fri Oct 28 21:48:58 CEST 2005 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: I've got an Eminent Wireless USB (EM3035) device with the Ralink chipset ural0: Ralink 802.11g WLAN, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x03), RF RT2526 ural0: Ethernet address: 00:06:f4:0b:d6:0e ural0: if_start running deferred for Giant When in hostap mode, the encryption fails. I tried both WEP (ifconfig) and WPA (hostapd). When in clientmode, encryption is OK. I tried the device with OpenBSD which works OK with hostap+wep, so the card seems to be ok. configuration: ifconfig_ural0="ssid home wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 wepmode on mediaopt hostap up" Tcpdump says: 17:16:55.609147 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:40:96:58:24:d3, length: 300 17:16:55.609168 IP truncated-ip - 24209 bytes missing! 175.8.224.204 > 86.30.246.56: ip-proto-216 I can see incoming traffic, so I used the correct key. But outgoing traffic seems to be broken. >How-To-Repeat: put the ural-device in hostap mode and try to use encryption. tcpdump the traffic to see that something is broken. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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