Default route doesn't change to wireless device (ath0)

[Jon Dama]

Okay.  Thanks for the info.

But since -current still applies to 6-BETA users, I suspect some of my
suggestions may still be valid depending on whether they are running
something from 6.0 or actually running head.

IMO, this should actually be a nonissue.  The trouble is that the routing
code does not do the right thing b.c. it should be possible to have
multiple default routes used selectively based on (1) whether the
interface is actually running, (2) the metric....

Hacking up dhclient to handle this issue does not seem like the right plan
unless there really is no expectation that the routing situation will
improve...

-Jon

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:43:57PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
> > If the start_if.ath0 script isn't running, you should check that you have
> > removable_interfaces="ath0" in rc.conf.  Though, I saw some traffic that
> > say this was going away.
>
> Yup, it's dying.
>
> > Anyway, quoting Brooks in "HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming"
> > "Second the pccard_ifconfig variable is only used as a default value for
> > interfaces that are on the removable_interfaces list, but do not have an
> > ifconfig_<if> variable. Third, interfaces must be on the
> > removable_interfaces list for pccard_ether to work."
>
> This is now wrong.  I've nuked the pccard_ifconfig and added an
> ifconfig_DEFAULT variable which applies to all interfaces that don't
> have ifconfig_<ifn> variables (actually, it applies to those with empty
> ones as well at this point which is probably a bug.)
>
> > There should not be a need to modify devd.conf as there is already this
> > line:
> >
> > attach 0 {
> >         device-name "$ethernet-nic-regex";
> >         action "/etc/pccard_ether $device-name start";
> > }
> >
> > The regex does cover ath0, and pccard_ether should handle the event if the
> > interface is listed in removable_interfaces
>
> We've actually done away with the regex in HEAD and are using interface
> types so anything should work now.
>
> > I also saw some traffic from Brooks where he explicitly stated that
> > the new dhclient does not touch the default route if one is already
> > configured.  afaik, this should not actually be a problem because start_if
> > is always run before dhclient has a change to start.  Also I agree, it
> > would rather dangerous if dhclient just started flushing the routing
> > table.
>
> If you want to forcably set the default route via dhclient, you can do
> it via /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks which is executed when dhclient-script
> exits or you could write code to unset the current default route if the
> interface is down and put it in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks.
>
> > Incidentially, I've seen this topic come up a dozen times + never knew
> > what do myself until Nate Lawson pointed me in the right direction a year
> > ago.  At that time, he remarked that this stuff isn't documented any where
> > + it really should be in the handbook.
> >
> > Can someone point me to where I should look for information on how to
> > contribute to the handbook in a format that is likely to be accepted?
> >
> > This is such a standard thing to want, it has to be done!
>
> You're probably looking for the doc project primer.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html
>
> We're hoping to make route handling a bit more flexable in dhclient, but
> I haven't had time to work on it yet.
>
> -- Brooks
>
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > > > Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
> > > > From: Jon Dama <jd at ugcs.caltech.edu>
> > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> > > >
> > > > Flush the routing table or at least delete the default entry in a
> > > > start_if.ath0 script.
> > >
> > > This is obvious, but does not answer the question: "Can't that be done
> > > automatically on plugging in either?"
> > >
> > > As I recall, when the OpenSSH dhclient was added, one of the things it
> > > was supposed to do was flush the routing table. This never seems to have
> > > happened and I'm not sure I'd want it to.
> > >
> > > Maybe devd could automate it? (I think I'm going to try that.)
> > > --
> > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> > > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> > > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> > > E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > >
> > > > > If I plug in my wireless nic (atheros) it comes up automatically through
> > > > > wpa_supplicant. However the default route still points to my non wireless
> > > > > nic (fxp0) even if remove the network cable before plugging in the wireless
> > > > > device. I have found no way around this, the only way of getting the
> > > > > default route changed to ath0 is setting in manually. Can't that be done
> > > > > automatically on plugging in either?
> > >
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