Bug 111067
| Summary: | RFE: multiple wireless keys | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Paul <pcmoore> |
| Component: | system-config-network | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-11-13 11:16:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 87718 | ||
I've been wondering, what is the purpose of having multiple keys when it seems that only one at a time works, and you need to change the current active key manually? I am not 100% positive on the reason, I suspect it has something to do with a 'stronger' version of WEP. I do know first hand that it is necessary - there is one network I use which will not let me on if I do not have all four keys configured. This is the reason I entered a 'bug' in the first place. Hi Harald, thanks for accepting this case. Do you have a rough idea when you might have something available for testing/use? This is almost a showstopper for me since it is the only way I can use wireless at my company. Any information on an expected release date you can provide would be helpful. Thanks. I have some more information which may be helpful and hopefully will answer Warren's question posted on 5/11/2004. I have found that when using WEP keys where the active key is not the first key I need to set all the keys and then tell iwconfig which key to use. For some reason just inputting the active key does not work. Hopefully this explains why? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031118 Description of problem: The network configuration tool does not allow me to specify multiple wireless keys for an interface, i.e. I can not do the following using the graphical configuration: # iwconfig eth1 key 0123456789 [1] # iwconfig eth1 key 1234567890 [2] # iwconfig eth1 key 2345678901 [3] # iwconfig eth1 key 3456789012 [4] # iwconfig eth1 key [2] The configuration tool assumes that only one key is needed. While this is visible as a bug in the config tool a quick glance at the ifup-wireless script reveals that it is not capable of handling multiple keys. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.3.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. redhat-config-network 2. 3. Actual Results: See above Expected Results: See above Additional info: See above