Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:12:39 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPA-EAP problems Message-ID: <200701172113.27380.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <45ADC311.90008@errno.com> References: <200701171608.49339.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <45ADC311.90008@errno.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:02, Sam Leffler wrote: > > If I kill dhclient and restart it I can get a lease just fine. I don't > > see the problem on a WPA-TKIP network. > > Sounds like an issue with dhclient. I rarely use anything but WPA-PSK > so haven't noticed issues. I just noticed I had added some stuff to my dhclient.conf file which will cause problems <blush> > It would be useful to get a wpa log to see how long it's taking to > authenticate. It'd be nice if dhclient were triggered by authentication > rather than association as packets cannot pass until before. I've > considered changing things to work in this way. I think currently dhclient gets run by devd because the interface comes up. > > I think the problem is that the ath interface comes up but no packets can > > be transferred because WPA stuff is still happening the initial requests > > get lost. > > But dhclient should retry and get a lease w/o your restarting it. Yes but its default time for this is 5 minutes. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFrf3P5ZPcIHs/zowRAmnUAJ9LQ0lgDm0CSmNA4VZxomXw3AiZIACfX89c 1bydYS7ZZQVldo/Ikuz2USA= =mURT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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