hi! On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 21:04, Zak <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, > > how involved would it be to port the OpenBSD ifconfig command and > functionality to FreeBSD? my use case for this would be to add support > to FreeBSD ifconfig that would allow me to interactively connect to > WPA networks, including secrets and keys,, via the command line > without resorting to externally packaged wpa network tools or editing > a file like wpa_supplicant.conf. > > see: https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8 >
It's not that easy; openbsd moved a bunch of functionality around to support WPA in their net80211. We don't have that; it's driven by userspace. Although! If you're asking about better tools to configure a wpa_supplicant process, that would be nice to code up and put into base. -adrian
