Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:18:43 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: dhclient.conf for ath wireless Message-ID: <42CA4263.9080409@locolomo.org>
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Hi, This is posibly just missing documentation, but it may be a bug or undesirable behaivour. I have read the ath, ifconfig, dhclient and dhclient.conf man pages, searched the web and asked in questions@, but not found an answer. I am running -CURRENT with the new port of dhclient from OpenBSD. The problem is that dhclient most often associante with my neighbours AP instead of mine. The man-pages mentions the "media" statement and according to the examples I can find in google I should add an entry like this: interface "ath0" { media "ssid MYAP mode 11g"; } in dhclient.conf. But on boot, dhclient enters into an infinite loop bringing up and down the interface, until I break it. I have to manually run "ifconfig ath0 ssid MYAP mode 11g" and then start dhclient manually to force it to associate correctly with MYAP. Can anyone point me to the correct documentation? I recall seeing one example which mentions something like this entry in rc.conf: interface_ath0="ssid MYAP mode 11g DHCP" Is this correct? Also, according to the examples I have seen, I should be able to list multiple wireless networks with the media option in dhclient.conf and dhclient will try them in order. This is cool since I can then configure my nic to associate depending on where I am. This seems not to be posible if the configuration goes into rc.conf. I have a 3Com wireless NIC and a comtrend AP. My dhcp server is isc-dhcp v.3 running on FBSD 5.4. I usually get associated with my neighbours 3Com AP running with a default setup. Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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