[pkg-wpa-devel] Maybe wpasupplicant just shouldn't roam at all..

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 03.04.2006, 18:12 +1000 schrieb Kel Modderman:
> Joachim Breitner wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it should be a mapping script (we actually have that,
> > that's guessnet, see below). But the point is that this daemon should
> > work _before_ ifupdown. Think of it this way. We have not hardware that
> > tells us that we are plugged in, so we need something to replace that.
> > It should work very analogous to ifplugd, IMHO.
> >   
> 
> The above paragraph is one of many in a series of thread's just started 
> due to the removal of wpasupplicant's init script that describes the 
> situation where a wifi roaming daemon is indeed required, but is 
> out-of-the scope of the wpasupplicant packaging itself.
> 
> The ifupdown glue for wpa_supplicant should be just the stuff required 
> for such a daemon to bring up various mappings/network profiles defined 
> in /e/n/i that require wpa encryption (in the case of a simple mapping 
> daemon).
> 
> So, i put it to you, that the removal of the wpasupplicant init script 
> based daemon has uncovered a void; there is no *single* wifi roaming 
> daemon available to us (at the time of writing), or we simply have not 
> found it yet.

You are right but I'd put it differently: There are at least two wifi
roaming daemons, but they happen to have names that refer to other
usage, and they have functionality they should not have. :-)

Is the wpasupplicant upstream on this list? Maybe someone with a good
connection to him could kindly ask him if he'd be willing to split the
roaming code out of wpasupplicant in a single daemon. The code _is_
there, just in the wrong place. (Of course, anyone with reasonable C
skills, a bit of WLAN knowledge and some time could easily do that, too,
I guess. Any volunteers?)

Greetings,

Joachim


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