[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#471858: wpasupplicant: option "wpa_iface" half works - but does IP config on the wpa_iface not the actual interface (normally a bridge)

[Paul Hedderly]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.3-1
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.106      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.7-9      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.20-1   simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.4.99-2   Middleware to access a
smart card
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history
libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-7   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-4      Linux Standard Base 3.2
init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

/etc/network/if-up.d/wpasupplicant says:

  # allow wpa_supplicant interface to be specified via wpa-iface
  # useful for starting wpa_supplicant on one interface of a bridge
  if [ -n "$IF_WPA_IFACE" ]; then
        WPA_IFACE="$IF_WPA_IFACE"
  else
        WPA_IFACE="$IFACE"
  fi

If I have an interfaces stanza:

  iface bridge inet manual
    pre-up ip link set up dev wlan0 # (Needed with iwl3945)
    bridge_ports wlan0
    wpa_iface wlan0
    wpa_roam /etc/network/wpa_supplicant.conf

and

    iface default inet dhcp

Then ifup br will bring up the bridge - and wpa_supplicant is started on
wlan0 that is all fine.


The problem is that wpa_supplicant configures IP on the wlan0 interface
not the bridge. So as it stands the wpa_iface option
is great idea but NBG :O)

I've not had a dig yet to see if I can see a simple or a good solution.

--
Paul