On 2014-03-24 14:06, Pawel Kulakowski wrote:
> Hi,
> When hostAP is running in Open mode and STA connects to it using PBC or
> PIN (wps enabled), then wpa_passphrase has been generated and added to
> the conf file (/var/run/hostapd-phyX.conf). Next, if AP is rebooted
> using UCI ('wifi' command), configuration will be overwritten by
> settings from /etc/config/wireless. This is the cause of issue: STA
> can't reconnect to the AP (wpa_passphrase is no longer valid).
> Similar problem can be observed using External Registrar: User can
> change password/ssid etc. using ER. But if UCI is used to restart hostAP
> ('wifi' command), changes will not be saved (hostapd conf file
> overwritten by settings from /etc/config/wireless).
> UCI is not a daemon (but only script) so it's not possible to monitor
> changes made in hostapd conf file (and decide which option is valid:
> from /etc/config/wireless or /var/run/...). Any ideas how solve this
> problem?
I think simply monitoring the config file for changes is a bad idea. I'd
prefer to have explicit callbacks from hostapd (maybe to a script) to
preserve those changes.
We can patch hostapd to implement that if needed.- Felix _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
