[pkg-wpa-devel] A challenge: wpa_supplicant + wlan button + zeroconf

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:20:21PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> > If so, what new challenges has it presented?
> 
> No real challenges, yet. One point I don't like that much is that on 
> disconnect the IP address will not be cleared (what's the right term?). I 
> would prefer the interface to be "essentially" ifdowned a few seconds after a 
> disconnect. (That's the way ifplugd handles it.)

I added a test to wpa_action, which flushes all ip adresses from the
interface on disconnect, if the package iproute is installed. I didn't
find an ifconfig equivalent for "/sbin/ip addr flush $IFACE".

> > Any other comments regarding the future development of wpasupplicant are
> > welcome at this time.
> 
> I didn't notice that comments had not been welcome ;-)
> 
> But two more suggestions:
> 
> 1. "wpa_action restart"  would be nice, since you have to restart the 
> wpa_supplicant after editing the wpa_supplicant.conf file in order to read 
> the changes. 

Good idea, committed to SVN (untested, but should work).

> 2. Now, that there is a roaming solution, how about a (semi-)automatic upgrade 
> method from old init script configurations? 

I'm open for ideas how to do this. I'd love to make it easy for Debian
3.1 users to upgrade to new wpa_supplicant.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard