From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 21:52:13 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 3ECD4C5E02D for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fnoyanisi@yahoo.com) Received: from nm49-vm6.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm49-vm6.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.205]) (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 EB6441760 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:52:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fnoyanisi@yahoo.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1480542539; bh=0LTGpaJBNRTZtyjNnShEzQ0uIGlphqIWcLFGpYo/2PI=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:From:Subject; b=hj03S60uXsdf8OGjNUxX9SD77tgUQan/2cnzP0gPYfxp1W75YEzAjnXW+bND+OChlENl55L54opdMMjkWgtfZXRGBi3H83hog6VMHadtwZ47Ee7qysfMPDKIpOxLKWe5jH+RhDrOn6M2UtramxhsjBkQmz36leKdtiIEYvyCIK+wx9f7124HsZDK3HkwFdC9/NnsPMwdIlR6QdAInb6BfVsk8ZhiEVd13HrjoDvaJNTj6tQ+OZ3nRX0J0I8Kl7ik6KZwsMx/CH45j4+n6BXca4qqrFd7KnXA0DXp78S2GTKbXN6Wkh03KKKzO27uwM8xDCW5zcqyl4r1bKu3Q3bNSA== Received: from [66.196.81.173] by nm49.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Nov 2016 21:48:59 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.209] by tm19.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Nov 2016 21:48:59 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1018.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Nov 2016 21:48:59 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 546410.65042.bm@omp1018.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-YMail-OSG: YTPDXgIVM1kFjUJlsKAGHU7acAD.eEoGdnpJeYC4jh31P1Gm4tRy_I6hw_i1hWJ 5EWB.AUPAJMrgeXS62yzjl8ZCb8Sc5xzI45g5m26c_xL.YXAf_g6gqCzvdxa3cRlqTtaE8sX9HP1 IcfMDQvp3Ae9IFvW_KjZDLM89BmIOSoZPzV.8_DKDb5HvRilw40t4HK1buM.N8IBhSw7tV55ToWH yCad1yLt3Ej3gYn4uhXbpQSrecRKZJTal_uoKQGxTMK1uTkGQXZEDg8yRAAdSnYm3hDBq9UPstNK fCDtd9Q4fBuAof04N_NQwFt2GMYMZ7q.oK9o7H5lWFAPyUtFfizZfHsNrx1N6fxwyHUYXmX8lUZW gVeSfH16a7LBfTUG9vS51GpZd1DVGGJub_sNVAH_qthUwdhY9JqCi0QyNE5Jfctar8Pd9igA3WPQ DnMNqvDR64MDlTWy5TrqjqgY7J.Rft_j_eVZSpqHzHEyyEJ8fw6nxllpQJr6HHapkej6HHjkB4We 9Vi5Fl4Mv_dD_OKWvaDOgLQ4- Received: from jws400113.mail.bf2.yahoo.com by sendmailws169.mail.bf1.yahoo.com; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:48:59 +0000; 1480542539.173 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:48:58 +0000 (UTC) From: Fehmi Noyan ISI Reply-To: Fehmi Noyan ISI To: Adrian Chadd Cc: Freebsd Wireless Message-ID: <1348514938.3829550.1480542538872@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: References: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <274363496.3274563.1480494823102@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:52:13 -0000 Thanks Adrian... ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Chadd To: Fehmi Noyan ISI Cc: Freebsd Wireless Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 4:36 AM Subject: Re: ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality hiya, nope - we're sticking with wpa_supplicant driving the wpa / 802.1x state machine for now. -a On 30 November 2016 at 00:33, Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-wireless wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"