wlan_wep
—
WEP crypto support for 802.11 devices
The wlan_wep
module handles the WEP cryptographic
requirements of the 802.11 protocol. It does encapsulation and decapsulation
of WEP-encoded 802.11 frames and optionally calculates the WEP cipher. The
wlan_wep
module is an 802.11 cryptographic plugin
module for use by the
wlan(4)
module. This module is automatically loaded if a WEP key is configured with
ifconfig(8).
Should the underlying network device not be capable of doing the WEP
calculations in hardware, the wlan_wep
module will do
the work.
More information can be found in the IEEE 802.11 Standard.
The wlan_wep
driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 6.0.