[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#360387: new mode 3 proposal Was: Bug#360387: wpasupplicant: please support the "old" daemon mode as an configuration option

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 02.04.2006, 22:01 +0200 schrieb Joerg Platte:
> > auto wifi0
> >
> > mapping wifi0
> >   script /usr/lib/wpa-ifupdown-mapping
> >
> > iface wifi0-home dhcp
> >   wpa-driver madwifi
> >   wpa-ssid homezone
> >   wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> >   wpa-psk 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415161718191a1b1c1d1e1f
> >   up echo I'm home| mail -s Hi honey at my.family
> 
> Good idea. But what happens, if the connection is lost and can be 
> reestablished in another network? Will dhcpd then try to get a new address? 
> What happens to VPN-connections? With ifplugd (my current configuration) the 
> interface is shut down and brought up again after reassociation. And then all 
> additional settings can be reapplied.
You spotted the weak point :-)

but please have a look at my other, just created, proposal. As we seem
to have similar needs, I'm sure you'll like it

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2006-April/000091.html


Greetings,
Joachim
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