Hi, I have been running testing/netctl for a couple of days now and noticed some issues (some of which are not really netctl specific). I thought it might be better to bring them up here, as opposed to flyspray.
1. There used to be a DHCP_OPTIONS variable in netcfg, but it is never mentioned in netctl documentation. Meanwhile, ip_set() in globals, does have DHCPOptions. Was making this variable invisible to the user intentional? It is quite convenient when dealing with buggy DHCP servers (e.g. -d switch for dhcpcd)... 2. There is a WPADriver variable whuch is not read if a profile is included in a group by netctl-auto (because profiles are parsed in separate subshells). This a good thing, as different profiles can have incompatible values of WPADriver, but I think it should be included in documentation (it can seriously confuse a user, myself included, who looks at ps auxww). 3. This is the main issue, albeit also present in netcfg. With wpa_supplicant 2.0 and wpa_actiond 1.4 we noticed a sizeable delay when shutting down netctl-auto (resp. net-auto-wireless) in a WPA-EAP environment. This is somehow related to the fact that wpa_actiond is never killed by netctl/netcfg which only terminates wpa_supplicant/dhcp client. The real problem may be in wpa_supplicant, but regardless, netctl/netcfg should properly clean up after itself. Pts. (2) and (3) are 'fixed' by the following small patch... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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