[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: wifiroamd as a Summer of Code project

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 13:17 +0200 schrieb Alexej Davidov:
> > ...
> > it should associate with that accesspoint and give control to
> > ifupdown.
> 
> So two separate things should be put into one program, again. In my
> opinion, wifiroamd should only do roaming, no bringing up of
> interfaces. We have ifplugd for this purpose and it works perfectly (at
> least for me). It already detects when a wireless IF is associated.
> Also, with the ifplugd approach one can treat wired and wireless
> interfaces the same way. As soon as the IF is associated with an AP
> (done by wifiroamd) there is no reason why it should be handled
> differently from wired interfaces.

No problem, just insert "indirectly" after "and" in my sentence :-)

> > It can be thought of as a ifplugd for wireless devices.
> 
> But it shouldn't. ifplugd is already there. No need to reinvent the
> wheel.

Sure, if the way wpasupplicant currently signals ifplugd the
availability of "link" is not too much a hack, and it doesn't seem like
it, as it works fine, we can stick to the current behaviour.

> Maybe the approach you've suggested seems logical, once one has
> approved of the new ifupdown config for wpasupplicant, which already
> introduces such an arbitrary distinction between wired (where you can
> use ifplugd) and wirelese interfaces (where you can't and you have to
> reinvent it using other means). So my problem with the suggested
> solution might be more fundamental, as I don't approve of the new
> config scheme, to begin with.

I like the old setup too, but when a roaming daemon is available, the
per-network-encryption stancas of the new scheme make sense, IMHO.
Without a roadming daemone, although, well, see the list traffic :-)

> Still I think, you should take into consideration the tools that are
> already out there doing their job and try to integrate with them,
> instead of reinventing them. 

Yes, that's right.

Greetings,
Joachim
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