From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 02:14:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C9B16A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:14:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmp@bitfreak.org) Received: from mail.bitfreak.org (mail.bitfreak.org [65.75.198.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEA943D1F for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:14:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmp@bitfreak.org) Received: from SMILEY (mail.bitfreak.org [65.75.198.146]) by mail.bitfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8528619F3B; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:15:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Darren Pilgrim" To: "'Brooks Davis'" Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:14:09 -0700 Message-ID: <001801c572e2$3faaa310$0b2a15ac@SMILEY> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <20050616182056.GF21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Importance: Normal Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is anyone working on /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:14:11 -0000 From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks@one-eyed-alien.net]=20 > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:51:44AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > Is anyone working on the proposed /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant script > > (as mentioned in /etc/network.subr? If not, I'll get started on > > one. >=20 > I'm planning to work on it, but if I don't do it my tomarrow it will > have to wait for the week of the 27th as I will be without electronic > devices next Sunday-Friday. Was that a yes or a no? :) > One could argue though that it actually has to be more complicated > than the dhclient script because in some really weird configurations > you might not have /usr mounted when netif is run and as a result > you need to support starting supplicants after mountcritremote. In > normal configurations, the script should see the already started > wpa_supplicants and not do anything when it is run. >=20 > I can't actually think of a good reason to have a machine with a > remote /usr be a wireless station, but I'm sure some crazy person > will come up with one. :) If you need wpa_supplicant and /usr is a remote filesystem, the network over which /usr is being mounted probably requires WPA, so it would be somewhat pointless. There could be some exotic configurations in which /usr is mounted over a non-WPA-required interface and WPA is needed for another interface. But I think that's stepping into the YBWI realm of system configuration. If this is a real concern, then I think the only real solution is to modify the wpa_supplicant Makefile(s) so it installs in /sbin and its library dependencies install in /lib.