Package: guessnet Version: 0.36-1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line ***
Facts ----- I'm using waproamd+ifplugd+guessnet on a wireless lan with a WEP key and DHCP, so this is what happens on my system: - plug-in wireless pcmcia card - cardmgr loads card's drivers (hostap's) and executes './network start wlan0', this makes hotplug launch waproamd and ifplugd (this last one, does not detect link beat and "sleeps" 'till new notice) - waproamd detects the new wireless lan and sets it up (ap, channel, essid, plus wep key) - ifplugd detects the wireless link beat (AP association) and runs my tests with guessnet - the 'test wireless mac <mac> essid <essid>' is runt by /usr/share/guessnet/test/test-wireless, which after doing the pertinent checks (maybe the MAC_ADDRESS and ACTUAL_MAC_ADDRESS should be both put on the same case - upper or lower, but both the same -, to avoid mistakes) and before exiting, does a 'ifconfig "$IFACE" down', which in turn deassociates the card from the AP (at least on my system) - as the guessnet's test succeeded on a DHCP logical iface, it sends a DHCPREQUEST, but the connection is not really up Problem ------- When the client (me) deassociates, the dhclient is not killed and continues requesting a lease. If when waproamd retries to connect again the same wlan is used, a dhclient (I don't know if the old is finally killed a a new one spawned) finally gets its job done (as I think the previous ifplugd finally succeeds and the new event triggered by waproamd (new link beat) is cancelled. If the wlan disappears, my system gets mad and the wlan card stops working... I don't know why. I haven't made all the possible tests, and I'm not pretty sure on what happens after the test-wireless' ifconfig ... down, but I think something goes wrong (is there any special or concrete case why you put that line there?) I didn't test the other two scripts, but they all have an ifconfig ... down line that could be problematic (I don't know...). Solution -------- I commented the 'ifconfig "$IFACE" down' line on guessnet's test-wireless script and everything went straightforward as expected. Well, I think i wrote too much for such a simple thing, sorry :) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages guessnet depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library ii libnet1 1.1.2.1-2 library for the construction and h ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level pa ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 guessnet recommends no packages. Versions of packages guessnet suggests: ii ifplugd 0.26-2 A configuration daemon for ethernet pn pppoe <none> (no description available) ii waproamd 0.6-7 WLAN roaming daemon Versions of other interesting packages: ii ifupdown 0.6.7 high level tools to configure netwo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
