wpa_supplicant support for ifup

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 14 18:32:13 UTC 2006


Keith Sharp (kms at passback.co.uk) said: 
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) said: 
> > > What do you think about the attached patch to ifup-wireless? Works for me :)
> > 
> > This should really be done in NM.
> 
> I may have the wrong end of the stick, but what about the increasingly
> common situation where wired access to Ethernet switches is beings
> controlled by 802.1x authentication?  I understand that NM will handle
> the laptop/workstation with GUI case, but what about servers?  And how
> does NM handle static IP addresses?

NM needs to move to handle these sorts of things; shipping two infrastructures
is silly.

Bill




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