Bug#363347: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#363347: wpasupplicant: ifdown doesn't work correctly when using wpacli-action-dhclient script

Tue Apr 18 20:48:15 UTC 2006

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:29, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> In (at least recent) linux kernels, the interface does not loose the
> associated ip. If you want to get all ip's off, you have to do a
> `ip addr flush dev wlan` (or reload the device driver module).

On my machine it is sufficient to ifdown an interface. This even holds true 
for the "managed mode" wpa_supplicant setup.

--Felix