my router hates me [SUCCESS]

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 23:53 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > There are many forms of WPA but I think you are referring to WPA-PSK
> > which is a 'pre-shared key' system. You put the pre-shared key into the
> > 'access point/router' and also provide the same pre-shared key to
> > whatever computer is trying to connect. WPA-PSK infers both an
> > encryption method and an authentication method.
> 
> That gave me the push I needed. I checked the key in wicd's advanced 
> settings (Karl's famous "tiny little arrow") and sure enough it was one 
> from a previous attempt to reconfigure. I had forgotten to change it. No 
> wonder it wouldn't authenticate.
> 
> > WPA (TKIP) or WPA2 (AES) are encryption methods and both would use a
> > separate backend radius server for authentication.
> 
> I have no reason to doubt you but I'm successfully (I think) running WPA 
> with TKIP and no server. What am I missing?
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I don't think you are missing anything.

A PSK authentication is simply that. TKIP and AES are encryption
methods. Different brands of wireless routers and access points differ
in their methods for choosing the security method. For example, my
WRT54G uses WPA Personal and WPA Enterprise terminology which only helps
to confuse things because they are using the differentiation to signify
authentication methods. 'Personal' means PSK and 'Enterprise' means
Radius server.

Craig


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