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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-07-29 17:03:36 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-07-29 17:03:36 +0000 |
commit | 81b1f09d1719de6b92cbf326f820093887979231 (patch) | |
tree | dfce998cf704b9bdf0ea4d9cea2ec246c2ec3b19 /share/man/man4/acx.4 | |
parent | 74b492306b6767e3343b6ed978b93b83ada89a38 (diff) |
tweak the wep section somewhat, to bring it into line with what
we say for those devices which support wpa;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/acx.4')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/acx.4 | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/acx.4 b/share/man/man4/acx.4 index 6ae0b791d13..87171f7efca 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/acx.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/acx.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: acx.4,v 1.31 2008/04/17 14:01:22 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: acx.4,v 1.32 2008/07/29 17:03:35 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2006 Theo de Raadt. .\" Copyright (c) 2006 The DragonFly Project. All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2008 $ .Os .Dt ACX 4 .Sh NAME @@ -80,16 +80,16 @@ capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, or to scan for access points. .El .Pp +The .Nm -supports software WEP for ACX111 and hardware WEP for ACX100. -Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the de facto encryption standard -for wireless networks. -It can be typically configured in one of three modes: -no encryption; 40-bit encryption; or 104-bit encryption. -Unfortunately, due to serious weaknesses in WEP protocol -it is strongly recommended that it not be used as the -sole mechanism to secure wireless communication. -WEP is not enabled by default. +driver can be configured to use +Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) +in software for ACX111 +or in hardware for ACX100. +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. .Pp The transmit speed is user-selectable or can be adapted automatically by the driver depending on the number of hardware transmission retries. |