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Originally Posted by qnetjoe
There is really no sense in reinventing the wheel. IEEE has been working on protected management frames for a long time. There is a standard called 802.11w-2009 that does this and it was ratified in 2009 and was recently superseded by 802.11-2012 which was just the merging of ten amendments together to help prevent forking.
The next step in the process would be to find hardware that meets FIRST budget and that meets these standard.
just my two cents
If you want to track the 802.11 WG progress/projects here a good link to start off with
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/1..._Timelines.htm |
The Cisco 1250 & 1260 series AP (with 32MB) already have support for Cisco Management Frame Protection (MFP). It's a similar idea but prior to the full standard availability. It requires a specific configuration and it requires a Cisco Certified Extensions CCX version 5.0 compliant device. There is support for CCX v5 from Ralink, Atheros and Broadcom. Though mostly as peripherals not in routers, AP or bridges that I could find. So it saves the field side but not the robot side.
Rosewill sells an USB device claiming CCX v5 support but I can't vouch for that personally, the model is:
RNX-N600UBE
I'm not making any recommendations here, if anyone is really interested please discuss the matter with AirTight regarding any caveats.