On 6/5/2008 4:49 PM Eric Martin said the following:
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my gentoo-sources kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.25,
I can no longer see packets on my wireless network for any device
other than my own. The tcpdump output looks like this:
20:49:32.909144 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Unnumbered, disc,
Flags [Final], length 44
20:49:32.912775 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send
seq 42, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 204
20:49:32.916874 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Supervisory,
Receiver not Ready, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 169
20:49:32.976738 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) Unknown SSAP 0x10 >
00:1f:32:5f:fe:06 (oui Unknown) Unknown DSAP 0xc2 Information, send
seq 43, rcv seq 0, Flags [Response], length 64
20:49:33.047570 00:12:bf:2a:2c:76 (oui Unknown) > 00:1f:32:5f:fe:06
(oui Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530:
0x0000: c211 5700 c393 1b7b 838f 366c 27c5 f97a ..W....{..6l'..z
0x0010: 5111 7d1a 1e33 bebd a432 ff30 5a35 e0ad Q.}..3...2.0Z5..
0x0020: ba16 2b31 f1e9 d905 5967 f333 d3a1 4ba3 ..+1....Yg.3..K.
0x0030: 1e32 0f18 fcc2
I've Googled for an answer and think that my problem is that I am
unable to decrypt WEP packets for any device other than my own. This
is a simple 64 bit WEP network in my home. Unfortunately I did not
find anything that applied to my situation.
One thing different about my new kernel config is that because I have
a Broadcom card, I moved to the new b43 driver instead of the old
b43_legacy driver. I am using version 4 firmware however I had the
same problem with version 3 firmware. I was hoping that would fix it
but no luck.
I am also using the new MAC80211 stack instead of the older IEEE80211
stack.
I don't have much help to offer than go with WPA over WEP (especially
WEP64). A guy at my LUG gave a presentation on hacking WEP and did it
in under 1 minute. I went home that night and got WPA to work.
Agreed that WEP is only marginally better than wide open. However I am
using an old Linksys ethernet/wireless bridge that does not support
WPA. Plus this is my small home network on property that is not that
close to others. Add to that MAC filtering (again, not hard to crack)
and I feel that the likelihood of someone seeking me out and cracking my
network is unlikely. And even if someone did, what are they going to
get? They'd still have to crack each system on my net before finding my
MP3s and family photos.
Any ideas on what I have done wrong?
Yes, turning on wep vs WPA ;)
For me, WEP isn't wrong. Just an educated choice based upon my hardware
capability and security needs. Yours may be different.
Thanks,
Drew
Sorry the only answer is do it totally differently but nobody else
replied so I figured I'd chime in.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Drew
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