Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:31:34 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Roland van Laar <roland@micite.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WPA && associating with unknown SSID Message-ID: <20080904083134.GA3606@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20080903203306.GE33677@yttrium.micite.net> References: <20080903113131.GA8697@rebelion.Sisis.de> <48BEA791.6030406@freebsd.org> <20080903190032.GA2372@rebelion.Sisis.de> <48BEE778.4000503@freebsd.org> <20080903203306.GE33677@yttrium.micite.net>
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El día Wednesday, September 03, 2008 a las 10:33:06PM +0200, Roland van Laar escribió: > I encountered the same problem last week. I had a contrab which did an > ifconfig ath0 down; ifconfig ath0 up > This worked fine with WEP but wpa_supplicant exits when ath0 goes done. > ath0 connects to the first open AP after it gets up again; not reconnecting > to my WPA AP. In my case wpa_supplicant always was running; it is launched by /etc/rc.conf as: ifconfig_iwi0="WPA" at home where I have this problem the association is WEP based; >From time to time my AP seems to get stuck and in this case wpa_supplicant seems picking up the wrong foreign AP; it triggers even on LINK_UP via the devd(8) my script which I have to assign IP or do DHCP according the AP-location, which of course does not know this foreign AP and does nothing, but I see it in the log: Wed Sep 3 07:07:49 CEST 2008: /usr/local/etc/devd/iwi.sh iwi0 LINK_UP AP [00:19:cb:86:b3:84] not known in /usr/local/etc/devd/iwi.sh I will try to collect a debug-log of wpa_supplicant for such a situation; matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ We should all learn from the peoples of The Netherlands, France and Ireland. Aprendamos todos de los pueblos de Holanda, Francia e Irlanda.
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