On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
what exactly is the point of having a wep key shared by 2000 people.
I didn't mean it for data confidentiality; I meant it for building the
wires W in WEP not for the P privacy. Basically one such W for ietf and
one for aodv.
We've noticed that setting both the essid and the key helps a lot with
the automatic detection various procedures, such as end-user laptops
don't get automatically attached to essid's that happen to be advertised
without keys by other end-users' laptops.
I expect you'll get a bounch of nodes in adhoc mode with the ietf5X ssid
and the ietf5x wep key as well...
except to have another thing for people to screw up when they try and
type it in our paste it. thereby increasing the support overhead at
the help desk.
Yes, I understand that talking in terms of 2000 actual people is
different than in terms of 20some hosts we're using.
Alex
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