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Manual Reference Pages  - ATHKEY (8)

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athkey - manage encryption type and keys of madwifi devices

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athkey [-i device] [-d] keyix cipher keyval [mac]

Each device may have up to four keys; the first argument required is the key index. The "-d" option may be specified to delete the key associated with the selected key index. Otherwise, the other arguments required are a cipher type and a key value encoded as a hexadecimal literal. A MAC address may be given as a final argument; if given, the key will be considered valid only for the specified MAC address.

-i device
	The madwifi device to apply the settings to. If no device is specified, athkey defaults to wifi0.
-d keyix	Delete a specified key index.
keyix	A key index of 1, 2, 3 or 4.
cipher	Cipher type values: [wep|tkip|ocb|ccm|aes|ckip|none]
keyval	A key value encoded as a hexadecimal literal with an optional leading 0x or 0X. Embedded periods, colons and dashes are ignored.
mac	MAC address encoded as an hexadecimal literal. If a MAC address is specified when adding a key value, the key will be valid only for the specified MAC.

athkey -i wifi1 -d 1
	Remove key value of index 1 for wifi1.
athkey 1 wep 0123456789
	Set a wep key of "0123456789" on index 1 on wifi0.
athkey -i wifi2 2 tkip 0123456789 00:9b:5c:63:e6:b4
	Set a key of 0123456789 using the tkip cipher for a MAC of 00:9b:5c:63:e6:b4 on index 2 on wifi2.

athchans(8), athctrl(8), athstats(8)

This manual page was written by Kel Modderman <kelrin@tpg.com.au> and was based upon previous text written by Eric S. Raymond and Thorsten von Eicken.
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