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Subject: Re: service netif restart [iface] runs a wpa_supplicant twice
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On 1 November 2013 12:16, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> wrote:

> That actually is a design question I once wrapped my head around
> unsuccessfully. The lines above are responsible for configuring wlan0
> if it is created, eg.
> ifconfig wlan0 destroy
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
> will invoke above code which will then invoke pccard_ether. Changing
> the code as you intent to will prevent this.
>
> Someone should step up an decide what is supposed to happen, should
> wlan0 in that case be configured as stated in rc.conf, or not?
>
> The actual issue though, is in wpa_supplicant itself. It has code to
> prevent it being started twice, but that doesn't kick in because the
> instances are started to fast and we loose (have not yet setup enough)
> information in our net code.

Uhm, I'm confused by this. Would you mind explaining it in a bit more detail?


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