ifplugd activated before wpa-supplicant is done

Stefan Monnier monnier
Fri Sep 12 18:17:22 PDT 2008


When I'm a bit far from my access point I noticed that ifplugd (which
I use on my wlan0 interface) starts the dhcp client before
wpa-supplicant has finished setting up the network connection.

More specifically, I see the following wpa_cli status:

   bssid=aa:xx:yy:zz:ww:qq
   ssid=foo-bar
   id=12
   pairwise_cipher=CCMP
   group_cipher=TKIP
   key_mgmt=WPA2/IEEE 802.1X/EAP
   wpa_state=ASSOCIATED
   Supplicant PAE state=AUTHENTICATING
   suppPortStatus=Unauthorized
   EAP state=IDLE

while my dhclient is already launched by ifplugd and trying to get an
IP address.  Is that normal?


        Stefan




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