Re: dhclient and wpa_supplicant

From: Sam Leffler (sam_at_errno.com)
Date: 07/30/05

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    Sam Leffler wrote:
    > Brooks fixed a bunch of bugs in dhclient and I just committed an
    > important fix to wpa_supplicant to work right when wireless cards are
    > ejected (previously it would loop).
    >
    > I also tested that dhclient does the right thing for roaming between
    > ap's--switching causes dhclient to immediately collect a new lease.
    >
    > I just ran tests with wpa_supplicant and found that it does appear to
    > handle open ap's properly.
    >
    > Everything except the wpa_supplicant changes have been MFC'd to RELENG_6
    > for the 6.0RC2 build that's going to happen soon (I'm hoping to get re
    > to approve the wpa_supplicant changes).

    FWIW I just MFC'd the wpa_supplicant fix.

    >
    > So the question is what are the outstanding issues with dhclient and
    > wpa_supplicant? I'm mostly concerned with wireless devices but feel
    > free to talk about wired interfaces too. If something doesn't work
    > right please try to give steps to reproduce the problem. Otherwise
    > please provide detailed info include ifconfig output. Remember that
    > dhclient logs info to /var/log/messages and you should also see link
    > state change msgs there too.

    s/6.0RC2/6.0BETA2/.

            Sam
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