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Subject: Re: dhclient and wpa_supplicant
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Sam Leffler wrote:
> Brooks fixed a bunch of bugs in dhclient and I just committed an 
> important fix to wpa_supplicant to work right when wireless cards are 
> ejected (previously it would loop).
> 
> I also tested that dhclient does the right thing for roaming between 
> ap's--switching causes dhclient to immediately collect a new lease.
> 
> I just ran tests with wpa_supplicant and found that it does appear to 
> handle open ap's properly.
> 
> Everything except the wpa_supplicant changes have been MFC'd to RELENG_6 
> for the 6.0RC2 build that's going to happen soon (I'm hoping to get re 
> to approve the wpa_supplicant changes).

FWIW I just MFC'd the wpa_supplicant fix.

> 
> So the question is what are the outstanding issues with dhclient and 
> wpa_supplicant?  I'm mostly concerned with wireless devices but feel 
> free to talk about wired interfaces too.  If something doesn't work 
> right please try to give steps to reproduce the problem.  Otherwise 
> please provide detailed info include ifconfig output.  Remember that 
> dhclient logs info to /var/log/messages and you should also see link 
> state change msgs there too.

s/6.0RC2/6.0BETA2/.

	Sam