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Improve, and slightly soften, the deprecated flags. Call them deprecated

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and not obsolete, but add a warning about their disappearance.

Add additional notes that explain the lameness of WEP.
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Warner Losh 2003-04-06 19:27:49 +00:00
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@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Encryption keys are only displayed if
.Nm
is run as root.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl t Ar tx_rate
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
Use
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Dq mediaopt
@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ The default driver setting is
(auto rate select).
The numbers vary from card to card.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl n Ar network_name
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
Use
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Dq ssid
@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ in another driver which indicates that the
.Dq Li ANY
string works as well.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl s Ar station_name
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
Use
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Dq stationname
@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ The
software can
poll the names of remote hosts.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl c Cm 0 | 1
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
IBSS networks are automatically created on those cards whose firmware
supports it while in IBSS mode.
.Pp
@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ The default is
.Pp
Only newer versions of the Lucent firmware support this.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl q Ar SSID
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
The ssid setting from
.Xr ifconfig 8
is the current preferred way of setting this parameter.
@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ can be any text string up to 30 characters long.
Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only: enabling
the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't appear to actually work.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl p Ar port_type
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
It should never be used.
Do not use this flag.
Its meaning depends on the type of card you are using, as well as the
@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ The
can be any number from 350 to 2304.
The default is 2304.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl e Cm 0 | 1
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
It has been replaced by the
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Dq wepmode
@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ The
can be any value between 0 and 2347.
The default is 2347.
.It Oo Fl i Oc Ar iface Fl f Ar frequency
This flag is obsolete.
This flag is deprecated.
Use
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Dq channel
@ -513,8 +513,11 @@ better signal quality).
.Xr wi 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh BUGS
There are obsolete flags here that should be removed.
These flags will be removed without further notice.
There are deprecated flags here that duplicate functionality of
ifconfig.
These flags will be deprecated in
.Fx 5.1
and removed in a future release.
.Pp
The WEP encryption method has been broken so that third parties
can recover the keys in use relatively quickly at distances that are
@ -543,9 +546,13 @@ discontinue it and use a new key.
See
.Pa http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/wep_attack.html
for details of the attack.
Many programs to assist in cracking WEP keys are widely available.
.Pp
If you must use WEP, you are strongly encouraged to pick keys whose
bytes are random and not confined to ASCII characters.
Brute force attacks on WEP keys are also possible.
Experience has showns that ASCII keys can be cracked in less than a day.
Even random bytes can be cracked in less than two weeks.
.Pp
Signal cache is broken right now.
.Sh HISTORY