wpa_supplicant support for ifup

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Mar 15 02:52:17 UTC 2006


Michael H. Warfield (mhw at wittsend.com) said: 
> 	Some of us would prefer to avoid being plagued by NM.  It
> (wpa_supplicant) works just fine, independent of NM and I've just got it
> hooked in the bottom of the ifup scripts as they describe doing on the
> project site.  So far, I haven't found a problem that NM solves for me
> and a few that it creates for me.  NM and wpa_supplicant should each be
> optional and orthogonal to each other.

That's implying that there should always be two completely disparate
and conflicting sources of network configuration (NM and ifcfg-X); I
really don't think that's practical long-term.

Bill




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