Bug#360387: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#360387: wpasupplicant: please support the "old" daemon mode as an configuration option

[Joerg Platte]

Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 07:15 schrieben Sie:
Hi Kel!

> I have some thoughts to implement some sort of network profiling using
> only callbacks from wpa_cli. I'll try to get together some sort of code
> for you to try soon. After the last release I've taken a little breather
> to collect my thoughts, it was a hectic two weeks.

:-) 

> Personaly, I had no objection to the init script being included, but not
> active. However, it had severe limitations, and as new programs emerge,
> that can handle your wifi profiles (eg. network-manager) using far
> superior methods than an init daemon + ifplugd (or whatever), it is
> important that we move on with some lower level integration of
> wpa_supplicant with out networking scripts, imho.

I'm using this "mapping" stuff, because it's very easy to write my own options 
to /etc/network/interfaces and parse them with a script 
in /etc/network/if-up.d. And this options and scripts can be used either by 
Wifi or Ethernet interfaces. This makes it very convenient. I don't know 
network-manager in detail, but if the same functionality is possible, I may 
switch to it. 

> Having said that, its possible to provide a simplistic method of wifi
> profiling, by calling for information from wpa_cli and executing
> different network specific operations. The framework is already there,
> using the manual inet METHOD plus an action script. The hard part is
> fooling ifupdown into going along with such plans . . .

Hmm, maybe ifupdown must be adjusted as well. Personally, I like the old 
approach, with this simple daemons working together and everything is managed 
by a simple configuration file.

regards,
Jörg