[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#678147: Bug#678147: wpasupplicant: Consider enabling IBSS RSN support

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Tuesday 19 June 2012, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
[…]
> Please consider enabling support for IBSS RSN, that is to say, to
> enable the use of standard compliant WPA2 in Ad-Hoc mode.  It is
> useful when you are stuck with a broken cable and two laptops with
> iwl3945 cards on it (which don't support AP mode) yet want a properly
> secured network.
> 
> The IBSS RSN support is still a tad experimental, but have been there
> for a long time and is quite usable. More and more linux drivers are
> supporting it (check yours with iw phy | grep IBSS RSN). I haven't fully
> checked for kfreebsd, but it doesn't appear to support IBSS RSN.
[…]

Thanks for your verbose bugreport and usage description, this really 
helps.

Apparently the preferred way to handle this is Wi-Fi P2P[1], a 
relatively new feature Intel and Atheros are working on for exactly 
this use case, because IBSS has a couple of design drawbacks beyond 
difficult encryption options (no aggregation support, requires very 
recent kernels (I'm not sure if 3.2 is sufficient) and several more). 
Unfortunately we didn't enable Wi-Fi P2P in wpasupplicant either…

While I have tentatively enabled CONFIG_IBSS_RSN in the packaging 
Vcs[2], I can't guarantee that this will remain in the next package 
version to be uploaded to the archive (therefore not tagging as 
pending, yet). This change will not be made for wheezy though, it's 
just too late for that.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap-1.git;a=blob;f=wpa_supplicant/README-P2P;hb=HEAD
[2]	http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-wpa/?view=revision&revision=1768
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