Bug 865920

Summary:	ifup integration with wpa_supplicant alone is broken and ignores ifcfg-wlan0 settings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Benjamin Podszun <benjamin.podszun>
Component:	wpa_supplicant	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	dcbw
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Description Benjamin Podszun 2012-10-12 19:52:33 UTC

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This is a limited, headless machine, so maybe I'm using a path that isn't popular anymore. No NetworkManager, just wpa_supplicant.

wpa_supplicant is spawned by systemd and associates fine, but no DHCP client is ever started.

My ifcfg-wlan0:

DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no #or yes - doesn't matter
TYPE=Wireless
NM_CONTROLLED=no



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a wpa_supplicant only wifi configuration
2. Boot system

Actual Results:  
You'll notice (via log/journal or iwconfig) that the device is associated
You'll notice (via ip addr / ifconfig) that no ip address is assigned
You'll notice (ps auxww | grep dhc) that no DHCP client is launched

Expected Results:  
After being associated the ifcfg configuration should be honored.
At minimum I'd expect ifcfg-wlan0 to be followed.

Ideally ifcfg-$id_strFromSupplicantHere$ would be used, so that multiple configurations are possible

Looking at ifup I see that there's a delegation, looking for ifup-$type and falling back to ifup-eth if no other file exists. ifup-eth is the only file that seems to honor the dhcp settings.

Funny enough, since there's no ifdown-wireless, ifdown falls back to ifdown-eth, which pulls down dhclient as expected.

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