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Re: isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.



On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 01:21:22AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 10:08:11PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > (Way more people should switch from wpa_supplicant to iwd.)
> > 
> > Difficult when network-manager depends (not recommends) wpa-supplicant:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/919619
> That Depends is not a problem.

Please elaborate how a Depends is not a problem for a switch.


@marco:  Thanks for telling there is `iwd`.
<screenshot>
$ apt show iwd 2> /dev/null | sed --silent '/^Description/,$p'
Description: wireless daemon for Linux
 Minimalistic wireless daemon that uses modern Linux interfaces like
 cfg80211 and nl80211 (netlink). The daemon provides a D-Bus API.
 .
 The daemon can be controlled from the command line with the included
 iwctl client utility.
 .
 The included iwmon utility can be used to monitor the 802.11 subsystem
 generic netlink commands and events. It uses the nlmon kernel driver
 from Linux 3.10 and later.
</screenshot>


Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
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