Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 15:29:27 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Kamil Choudhury <Kamil.Choudhury@anserinae.net> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Configure hostapd(8) to manage multiple interfaces Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmon4HqSbkeeT2ZTsYf8wJxxjmtRfdTpxSYvH8=UE3KQ7cA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <59af1e76.c138ed0a.3bf3f.ad1aSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> References: <59af1e76.c138ed0a.3bf3f.ad1aSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com>
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please do this!
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On 5 September 2017 at 14:53, Kamil Choudhury
<Kamil.Choudhury@anserinae.net> wrote:
> I've had this change floating around for a while to allow hostapd(8)
> to manage multiple wireless interfaces using rc.conf...
>
> In rc.conf, we specify our wireless interfaces:
>
>> hostapd_ifaces="wlan0 wlan1"
>
> ...and enable our hostapd as before:
>
>> hostapd_enable="YES"
>
> Behind the scene, we need to create /etc/hostapd-wlan0.conf and
> /etc/hostapd-wlan1.conf
>
> Here are the diffs:
>
> diff --git a/etc/rc.d/hostapd b/etc/rc.d/hostapd
> index d0c2d88f2ff..43c6cf4e480 100755
> --- a/etc/rc.d/hostapd
> +++ b/etc/rc.d/hostapd
> @@ -13,15 +13,27 @@ name="hostapd"
> desc="Authenticator for IEEE 802.11 networks"
> command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
>
> -ifn="$2"
> -if [ -z "$ifn" ]; then
> - rcvar="hostapd_enable"
> - conf_file="/etc/${name}.conf"
> - pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
> +load_rc_config ${name}
> +
> +
> +if [ -n "$hostapd_ifaces" ]; then
> + nl_hostapd_ifaces=`(echo $hostapd_ifaces | tr '\s+' '\n')`
> + for iface in $nl_hostapd_ifaces
> + do
> + conf_file="/etc/${name}-${iface}.conf $conf_file"
> + done
> + pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
> else
> - rcvar=
> - conf_file="/etc/${name}-${ifn}.conf"
> - pidfile="/var/run/${name}-${ifn}.pid"
> + ifn="$2"
> + if [ -z "$ifn" ]; then
> + rcvar="hostapd_enable"
> + conf_file="/etc/${name}.conf"
> + pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
> + else
> + rcvar=
> + conf_file="/etc/${name}-${ifn}.conf"
> + pidfile="/var/run/${name}-${ifn}.pid"
> + fi
> fi
>
> command_args="-P ${pidfile} -B ${conf_file}"
> @@ -29,5 +41,4 @@ required_files="${conf_file}"
> required_modules="wlan_xauth wlan_wep wlan_tkip wlan_ccmp"
> extra_commands="reload"
>
> -load_rc_config ${name}
> run_rc_command "$1"
> diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
> index a03f4de5cb9..7217cbc1f16 100644
> --- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
> +++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
> @@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ Set to
> to start
> .Xr hostapd 8
> at system boot time.
> +.It Va hostapd_ifaces
> +.Pq Vt str
> +Space separated list of interfaces managed by
> +.Xr hostapd 8
> .It Va hostname
> .Pq Vt str
> The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of this host on the network.
>
> My shell isn't great, but the above changes do seem to work. Let me know
> if there is interest in merging this, and if so, what I can do to move
> the process ahead.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kamil
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