Re: wpa_supplicant before dhcpcd

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:57:29PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> So there would be a need for dhcpcd to act in a similar way? Now it has
> carrier link code, waiting for the interface to appear and expire the
> lease when it dissappears should be fairly trivial.

I don't think so -- that part can easily be handled by an external
daemon. The problem with wpa_supplicant is that it opens a socket by
default. I have to check versions newer than 0.6.2 (the version in
-current) for dynamic support.

Joerg