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authorSören Tempel <soeren+git@soeren-tempel.net>2015-09-05 16:05:02 +0200
committerFrancesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>2015-09-07 12:07:30 +0000
commitcc8f61f6330f49f1e2522e6fbed88e84e47190c3 (patch)
tree4947c1f8740852311e0158a3c8a61237caac7d4f /unmaintained
parent226fe478c20bcc6958b000864775186f115865c0 (diff)
main/wpa_supplicant: add wpa_cli(8) action script
This action script manages the associated network interfaces. It start them when wpa_supplicant successfully established a connection and it stops them when wpa_supplicant disconnected from an access point. When traveling between different location / networks / access points with my laptop I noticed that udhcpc didn't automatically require a new lease and had to be restarted each time I was associated with a new access point. I had to manually invoke `ifdown <interface> && ifup <interface>` each time I associated with a new access point. Searching for solutions I looked at gentoo's netifrc[1] and noticed that they are using a wpa_cli(8) action script[2] to solve this. I read the gentoo action script[3] and decided to write a new action script for alpine loosely based on gentoo's version. This is the result. Maybe there is a better way to solve this problem if so I would to hear about it. Otherwise I believe that this is the best approach to solve it. It should also make it unnecessary to add the wpa_supplicant service to the boot level since it doesn't need to be started before the networking service anymore. The action script has to be started manually using `wpa_cli -a /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli.sh` currently. I couldn't decide how to start it automatically. Gentoo starts it as a part of netifrc using start-stop-daemon[4]. Maybe we should start it with the same options from the wpa_supplicant OpenRC service? [1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/netifrc.git [2]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/netifrc.git/tree/net/wpa_supplicant.sh#n54 [3]: https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-wireless/wpa_supplicant/files/wpa_cli.sh [4]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/netifrc.git/tree/net/wpa_supplicant.sh#n164
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