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authorReyk Floeter <reyk@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-05-15 21:09:50 +0000
committerReyk Floeter <reyk@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-05-15 21:09:50 +0000
commit36cde1e5c79aa77968ab3a99a0908e29136ef512 (patch)
tree1bb2003c0ef49bc82f0a0464d75d58ffccaf91db /usr.sbin/hostapd
parent5940aca5d72dfea8a5dcd50b8578c67f6369f380 (diff)
mention the lack of authenticated management frames in IEEE 802.11.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/hostapd')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.89
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.conf.53
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.8 b/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.8
index c0af54503f3..7363ebacfef 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: hostapd.8,v 1.11 2006/05/15 20:53:02 reyk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: hostapd.8,v 1.12 2006/05/15 21:09:49 reyk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -137,3 +137,10 @@ driver still uses its own Host AP code in
.Fn if_wi_hostap ,
which is not supported by
.Nm .
+.Pp
+The IEEE 802.11 WLAN protocol lacks authentication of management
+frames and is vulnerable to various Denial-of-Service and
+Man-in-the-Middle attacks.
+That should be considered when implementing wireless networks
+with
+.Nm .
diff --git a/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.conf.5
index 0053f0e212d..d012beddd84 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.conf.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/hostapd/hostapd.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: hostapd.conf.5,v 1.31 2006/05/15 20:53:02 reyk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: hostapd.conf.5,v 1.32 2006/05/15 21:09:49 reyk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -760,4 +760,3 @@ program was written by
.Em IP Roaming
requires statically assigned IP addresses of stations and does
not support DHCP at present.
-