<div>Will try that. Thanks for your help Jouni. If that doesn't work, i will try using the hostap driver for the AP.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>Rupinder<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jouni Malinen</b> <<a href="mailto:jkmaline@cc.hut.fi">jkmaline@cc.hut.fi</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +1000, Rupsky Gill wrote:<br><br>> I am using madwifi driver and hostapd to set up an Access Point and
<br>> i am using wpa_supplicant and madwifi for the STA.<br><br>madwifi driver interface had some assumptions about hostapd only being<br>used when data packets are encrypted.. I don't remember whether this has<br>been fixed.
<br><br>> I am experimenting with some EAP methods. I was wondering if it was<br>> possible<br>> to make hostapd authenticate the STA using EAP-TLS (or any other EAP method<br>> for that matter) however not encrypt the subsequent data exchanges after
<br>> successful authentication (i.e. not engage in 4-way hanshake etc.) It should<br>> be theoretically<br>> possible as authentication and confidentiality are two seperate security<br>> functions.<br><br>In theory, yes, it should be possible to configure hostapd to do this.
<br>This requires enabling IEEE 802.1X, but not WPA and not configuring<br>dynamic WEP key lengths.<br><br>> I am bit lost as to is it as easy as changing particular config files<br>> (hostapd/wpa_supplicant)<br>> or would it need some code modifications ?
<br><br>I haven't tried this with madwifi driver, so I'm not sure whether it<br>would work without any code changes. For wpa_supplicant, you will need<br>to set eapol_flags=0 so that it does not require dynamic WEP keys.<br>
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