From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 08:33:51 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCBFC5D97C for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fnoyanisi@yahoo.com) Received: from nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.213.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16C6E12F7 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fnoyanisi@yahoo.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1480494823; bh=sJqm7kngacxDkfJ8U0Y4fWkM/pPdfdx5aK0BIXRqwBE=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:References:From:Subject; b=UO9QEmYFHD+VMdtPXMlsl8hjRHyeY4waDJWD00v/PJ0T+8jMibZpSZFBZo1ISQFUg1l8X60GxTHcprbaGye3hHcgLPGWXd1+Fn/a2D3ikXXkg3spbfp+rJC3DLGOEQoiHkKYwzmS2EzgNoBEF3VS7xteEDJbrePhSHaLbgDZYAg9FJdUo/i3QpxuNEGLSp7eVnBylaS0nvYnOJueV6mg0qRceFI2MRRGl5TowljeGqaUfo773NxRgvyuAVHkSD5k6KwqAgh5InzrzOz+yidySpuoApBlC7+vh4MW0T6Py8XHb0KvzjcFTFIY2bnevtQtORzbjs919V7TTwY+Gfv0oA== Received: from [98.139.170.181] by nm8.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Nov 2016 08:33:43 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.245] by tm24.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Nov 2016 08:33:43 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1054.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Nov 2016 08:33:43 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 646251.30123.bm@omp1054.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-YMail-OSG: 1qOOu_wVM1nCSbU7EkMr_zj5bUgv0cybRt3micRdCdKofUe3gTpcs.X2sj_oRfz CWkKkYG8FcuIQz4THUmNYncpzA7sWAMlV8LouHZ7VK0_BTN2AQM6WPyhTJwMOiRIpit7Obvxa_E0 L4hk5NFfUB03vjBMvL56dbGd4mcQKNL5Ueb0w7L6a0RD4V.MjCbCZV.zQir9FIuAhQQld3Emd9AH nIoj4mcSZfbQZuCGocOW9ht6eRyqm9Tfytox9SKwqkThaOv8wv8N9sYLxKQS.uNdvx.65tO1Pu23 MH8Bae.nwm_qdEhsxnufMLnQpYeSeuL7LBm.g29knP9NjqLEdYJ4NyPaV5sz3yRKWngculNrCTli N0X.DWVWRpkAK8gaBdkkN7hnu9mzA7xzSPiVoa1XpCePeu9BAFQdrBtzIZtMcWFhQmnf33nIsvw2 YGcSg_nmcepZPMRqtq6jnJeGgqxRvnvS3jNliCzYDBLbPUGzu77t348qqR_Hp6MhBFyetqyo..KP 4hm1OQ_SEEa1c_21YxH6I Received: from jws400055.mail.bf2.yahoo.com by sendmailws164.mail.bf1.yahoo.com; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:43 +0000; 1480494823.284 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Fehmi Noyan ISI Reply-To: Fehmi Noyan ISI To: Freebsd Wireless Message-ID: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102.ref@mail.yahoo.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:33:51 -0000 hiya, I have been studying OpenBSD's implementation of ifconfig utility and realized that many of the WPA functionality is provided by the OpenBSD's ifconfig utility. Functionality is implemented as ioctl calls (SIOCS80211WPAPARMS / SIOGS80211WPAPARMS) and, as far as I have been told, is enough to provide basic wifi connectivity and likes. Has something similar (embedding WPA functionality into ifconfig(8)) been considered for FreeBSD before? This, of course, is a design matter than being a coding issue. Thanks