dhclient.conf for ath wireless
Brooks Davis
brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Jul 7 16:49:23 GMT 2005
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:09:22PM +1000, Rob B wrote:
> At 06:18 PM 5/07/2005, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> >I am running -CURRENT with the new port of dhclient from OpenBSD. The
> >problem is that dhclient most often associante with my neighbours AP
> >instead of mine.
> >
> >The man-pages mentions the "media" statement and according to the examples
> >I can find in google I should add an entry like this:
> >
> >interface "ath0" {
> > media "ssid MYAP mode 11g";
> >}
> >
> >in dhclient.conf. But on boot, dhclient enters into an infinite loop
> >bringing up and down the interface, until I break it. I have to manually
> >run "ifconfig ath0 ssid MYAP mode 11g" and then start dhclient manually to
> >force it to associate correctly with MYAP.
>
> Have you tried putting the appropriate ifconfig command line into
> /etc/start_if.ath0. That works for me.
The correct method is to just add:
ifconfig_ath0="ssid MYAP mode 11g DHCP"
to /etc/rc.conf. With exception of devices that load firmware, you
probably do not need /etc/start_if.* these days.
-- Brooks
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