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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting FreeBSD rc.subr wireless script Post 302657385 by bakunin on Sunday 17th of June 2012 11:51:13 AM
Old 06-17-2012
First off, let me congratulate you: this is by far the best first posting i have read here for ages. You even seem to understand how to use CODE-tags, which will earn you the eternal respect and heartfelt thankfulness of the complete moderation team.

Quote:
Originally Posted by regexp
Is this ok? Is there a better way ?
This is OK. In fact, start-/stop-scripts have been written this way for a long time.

Just as a suggestion, you might want to add a "restart" function, which simply consists of a call to "stop()" first and then a call to "start()".

Another suggestion: do you really want to hard-code the IP address into a rc-script? You might want to make the script more generic by obtaining the IP-address in its own script. This would either read it from some configuration file or get it via DHCP, bootp or the like.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

ifcfg-wireless

IFCFG(5)						       Network configuration							  IFCFG(5)

NAME

       ifcfg-wireless - wireless LAN network interface configuration

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-*
       /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-type-wlan

GENERAL

       Wireless  networks  need  some additional configuration data compared to ethernet ones. Therefore additional variables for ifcfg files were
       introduced.  All wireless LAN specific variables are described in the ifcfg template file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg.template. It is pos-
       sible to configure more than one wireless network accepted for association. To achieve this add suffix _1 to all wireless variables for the
       second network, _2 for the this, and so on. Example: WIRELESS_ESSID_1="second_net" You can have up to  ten  wireless  networks  configured.
       Some  wireless  variables  are not applicable to a single wireless network but are global to the interface. The description of the variable
       points this out.

BUGS

       Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback>

AUTHOR

       Christian Zoz <zoz@suse.de> -- ifup script
       Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> -- ifup script
       Bjoern Jacke -- ifup script
       Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> -- ifup manual page
       Michal Ludvig <mludvig@suse.cz> -- tunnel support
       Joachim Gleissner <jg@suse.de> -- wireless support

SEE ALSO

       ifup(8).

sysconfig							   December 2005							  IFCFG(5)
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