Re: Wireless-ethernet bridge with WPA-PSK (AES) ?


"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:32:19 -0500, "bc20" <bc20z020@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Found one that works. Linksys WET54G, H/W Version 3.1
The setup lists both TKIP and AES for WPA1. (It also has both for WPA2.)

Egads.... You're right. I checked the settings at:
<http://ui.linksys.com/files/WET54G/v3/2.07/index.htm>
Both AES and TKIP are offered in both WPA and WPA2. Amazing.

Sure enough, when WPA1 is selected with AES, it connected fine, but when
WPA2 is selected with AES it doesn't connect.
Nor does it connect when TKIP is selected for either.

Chuckle. Usually it's TKIP that works every time in WPA2 mode, and
not AES. Now, it's backwards. Congratulations, maybe.

Yeah, that emulator is also old as well. The newest software firmware has
both WPA and WPA2 in the drop down box. (Along with WEP, Radius, etc.)
AES/TKIP are selectable for both WPA and WPA2. The only combination that I
got it finally working with was WPA and AES.

I'm not sure what router or AP they were using at the place I needed the
bridge at. All I know is that it was a Linksys.

I have a AP at home that also does WPA1-PSK-AES. (It doesn't even have
WPA2). It is the DLink DWL-7100AP

If my reading was correct, AES was intended for WPA2, but some manufacturers
"snuck" it into WPA1 early, making WPA1-PSK-AES a proprietary "non standard"
?
Also read that even though the encryption matches with WPA2, there are major
differences with the other protocols, so the two (WPA1-PSK-AES and
WPA2-PSK-AES) can't talk to one another...

Ya'd think they (manufacturers) would have wanted to prevent confusion...
Oh well...


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