802.1X: dhclient started before the auth. process ends

[Adrian Chadd]

I think you were lucky.

dhclient shouldn't start running until wpa_supplicant has completed
authentication.


-adrian

On 29 July 2013 02:59, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:34:51PM +0200, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> At $WORK, we use 802.1X to authenticate computers on the network.
>> Authenticated computers receive a lease in the 192.168.X.X/24 network.
>> Unauthenticated ones receive a lease in the 172.16.X.X/24 network.
>>
>> Today, I upgraded one computer running 10-CURRENT to latest HEAD and it
>> seems that the interface is brought up to early now: dhclient is started
>> before wpa_supplicant finishes. This was working perfectly before the
>> upgrade.
>>
>> I don't have logs of the working case, but here are the logs of the
>> non-working one:
>> http://pastebin.com/ZHcbHLQZ
>>
>> Was I lucky with wpa_supplicant/dhclient timing? Or is there a real
>> issue here?
>>
>
> CC'ed wireless@, that's probably the proper list for the issue.