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Subject: Re: service netif restart [iface] runs a wpa_supplicant twice
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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.. that needs to be fixed. It definitely shouldn't be started twice!



-adrian



On 23 October 2013 16:56, clutton <clutton@zoho.com> wrote:

> What is the best way to restart a wireless stack?
>
> A command "ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0" starts the wpa_supplicant
> by itself. It means that the netif script runs the wpa_supplicant twice,
> always. Is it ok?
>
> There is my debug during booting:
>
> [netif.network_common()] START:
> [netif.network_common()] ITERATION:
> [wpa_supplicant] SUPPID=30067
> [wpa_supplicant] SUPPID=30067
> [netif.network_common()] STOP:
>
> It means that during running a network_common() from the /etc/rc.d/netif
> the /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant was called twice.
>
> /etc/rc.conf
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
> ipsec_enable="YES"
>
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> network={
>   ssid="ssid"
>   psk="psk"
> }
>
> 11.0-CURRENT
>