dhcpcd-discuss

On 15/01/2010 18:47, Jemimah Ruhala wrote:
> I'm building a wpa_supplicant frontend for Puppy Linux which uses dhcpcd
> with a wpa roaming setup, and for the most part it works flawlessly.
> However, some wireless connections will disconnect/reconnect frequently
> and wpa_supplicant tells dhcpcd the interface is down every time a
> disconnect happens.  Of course it comes right back up and then dhcpcd
> starts a dhcp discovery leaving you without a connection for several
> seconds.  Using the 'nolink' parameter successfully stops the madness,
> but then dhcpcd will never know when the network has actually disconnected.
>
>
> Is there a better solution?  Could a parameter be added to dhcpcd to
> tell it to wait a second to see if the connection comes back before
> deconfiguring the interface?  Any ideas would be appreciated.

A better solution would be to build some resilience into wpa_supplicant 
so that it does not bring the link down so quickly.

Of course, a small delay could also be added to dhcpcd via the event 
loop model we have.

Thanks

Roy