Re: dhclient.conf for ath wireless

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:09:22PM +1000, Rob B wrote:
> At 06:18 PM 5/07/2005, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Have you tried putting the appropriate ifconfig command line into 
> /etc/start_if.ath0.  That works for me.

The correct method is to just add:

ifconfig_ath0="ssid MYAP mode 11g DHCP"

to /etc/rc.conf.  With exception of devices that load firmware, you
probably do not need /etc/start_if.* these days.

-- Brooks

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