>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >>Is there any relation between wpa_supplicant and Solaris' wpad? >> >> >See below. > >>I'm a bit confused. >> >>As far as I know, we have: >> >> - wificonfig but OpenSolaris but all of that in dladm >> - we have two different atheros driver branches >> - wpad vs wpa_supplicant? >> >> >wpa_supplicant is trial version, ported from opensource. >wpad is derived from wpa_supplicant, but architecture refined due PSARC >requirement. (renamed from wpa_supplicant to wpad). >wpa_supplicant supports WPA-PSK and WPA/EAP-TLS mode, but wpad only >supports WPA-PSK mode. >wpa_supplicant needs wificonfig v0.3, wpad needs dladm. >
So why were parts of the features supported in wpa_supplicant dropped from wpad? Casper
