tech-net: Re: Persistent WEP keys

Subject: Re: Persistent WEP keys
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net, tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/09/2001 15:10:24

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:54:55PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >How about this?
> >	ifconfig <if> nwkey <key>	# enable WEP with temporary key <key>
> >	ifconfig <if> nwkey persist	# enable WEP with persistent key
> >	ifconfig <if> -nwkey		# disable WEP (also delete temp key)
> >Programming persistent key can be a different interface (anconfig).
> 
> 	how would you configure a string "persist" as a key? :-)
> 	(i think it is rather confusing to reuse an argument for <key> and
> 	"persist" keyword)
Hmmm, yeah. Maybe then:

	ifconfig <if> nwkey temp <key>
	ifconfig <if> nwkey persist [<key>]
	ifconfig <if> -nwkey

Feico.