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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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