NetworkManager Issues

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Nov 5 16:30:26 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:08 -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:02:40PM +0100, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> > As for the ipw2100 driver -- versions 0.57+ now actually default to
> > OPEN.  But NM overrides this so no harm done.  It does make life harder
> > if you're using ifup scripts with shared key authentication though.  I
> > had to patch ifup-wireless to force restricted mode.
> 
> Shared Key auth is worse than no authentication/encryption at all. 
> Anyone with a clue will be using Open System.  I don't think we should
> put too much effort into making Shared Key easy to use.

Charles,

Why is it so much worse?

Also, did you read my explanation of how its much much harder with Open
System to figure out if the WEP key is wrong?  That's the big sticking
point here.  If we can't automatically detect whether the WEP key is
wrong or not (and waiting 30s for a failed DHCP certainly isn't
"automatic"), then we might as well not even try to improve on the
current system-config-network.

Dan




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