ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality

[Fehmi Noyan ISI]

Thanks Adrian...




----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
To: Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi at yahoo.com>
Cc: Freebsd Wireless <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality

hiya,

nope - we're sticking with wpa_supplicant driving the wpa / 802.1x
state machine for now.


-a



On 30 November 2016 at 00:33, Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-wireless
<freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org> wrote:
> hiya,
>
> I have been studying OpenBSD's implementation of ifconfig utility and realized that many of the WPA functionality is provided by the OpenBSD's ifconfig utility.
>
> Functionality is implemented as ioctl calls (SIOCS80211WPAPARMS / SIOGS80211WPAPARMS)
>
> and, as far as I have been told, is enough to provide basic wifi connectivity and likes.
>
> Has something similar (embedding WPA functionality into ifconfig(8)) been considered for FreeBSD before? This, of course, is a design matter than being a coding issue.
>
> Thanks
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