Wpa, dhcp and default routes...

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Sun Feb 27 19:11:36 GMT 2005


Jochen Gensch wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
>> I think I recall seeing this.  I  mostly use minipci cards so don't 
>> experience this.  I'll check on it.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
>> I've not seen that however I mostly use a port of the openbsd dhclient 
>> that's been modified to understand 802.11 msgs through the routing 
>> socket.  Unfortunately I've got no time to shepherd this work into the 
>> tree and noone responded to my request for help in the last status report
> 
> 
> Is that port available for FreeBSD?

No, I've been looking for a committer to shepherd the work into the 
tree.  In particular I am concerned about the potential fallout in 
changing from a single instance of dhclient to having one per/interface.

 > Mmh, but why isn't the option -i for
> periodical polling working?
> 
>> Yes, this is a pain with the current dhclient.  I believe it's 
>> resolved with the new dhclient hook scripts.
> 
> 
> Could you geive me a bit more information on that? What hook scripts and 
> when / where could I test them? But why is setting up a corret route an 
> dhclient issue?

http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/wifi&HIDEDEL=NO

	Sam


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