[Olsr-users] Encryption in ad-hoc network using Openwrt+OLSR

Ben West (spam-protected)
Fri Apr 4 08:49:39 CEST 2014


Sorry for being ambiguous.  My experience has been that either of these
package selections ...

A. wpad
B. wpa_supplicant & hostapd, which are complimentary

... enable IBSS-RSN WPA encryption.  Selecting all 3, i.e. wpad,
wpa_supplicant, and hostapd, cause conflicts.  Also, I think hostapd +
wpa_supplicant is possibly slated for obsolescence at some point (even
though these packages are all basically invoking bits from the same hostapd
tarball).

I've been using the wpad package with encryption=psk2+aes w/o problem on
r38xxx revisions of OpenWRT AA and higher.

The Commotion folks are actually using wpad_mini, patched to include
IBSS_RSN.  That works fine, too, and I can share the patch if you don't
mind cluttering your build tree.



On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ben West <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> > This is possible in current generations of OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment,
> > although I'm not completely sure if the pre-compiled v12.09 binaries
> support
> > it reliably.  It is called IBSS-RSN.  You would need to include the
> package
> > wpad or hostapd + wpa_supplicant.  The wpad_mini package as-is doesn't
> > include IBSS-RSN support.
>
> Just to make sure to get this right...
>
> is wpad alone enough? "wpad or (hostapd + wpa_supplicant)"
>
> or do I need wpad and wpa_supplicant? " (wpad or hostapd) and
> wpa_supplicant"
>
> I am in the process of building an OpenWRT image for our "dlep based
> hybrid node design" and would like to support the wpa2 mode.
>
> Henning Rogge
>



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