Re: WPA-EAP problems

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:12:39 +1030
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:02, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > If I kill dhclient and restart it I can get a lease just fine. I don't
> > see the problem on a WPA-TKIP network.
>
> Sounds like an issue with dhclient.  I rarely use anything but WPA-PSK
> so haven't noticed issues.

I just noticed I had added some stuff to my dhclient.conf file which will 
cause problems <blush>

> It would be useful to get a wpa log to see how long it's taking to
> authenticate.  It'd be nice if dhclient were triggered by authentication
> rather than association as packets cannot pass until before.  I've
> considered changing things to work in this way.

I think currently dhclient gets run by devd because the interface comes up.

> > I think the problem is that the ath interface comes up but no packets can
> > be transferred because WPA stuff is still happening the initial requests
> > get lost.
>
> But dhclient should retry and get a lease w/o your restarting it.

Yes but its default time for this is 5 minutes.

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