The right way to do DHCP with wi/ed?

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Mon Apr 7 12:56:22 PDT 2003


> From: "Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org>
> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 08:52:30 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On 7 Apr 2003 at 14:50, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> 
> > ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" should work. but first of all, you might want to
> > configure your WEP keys, frequency, porttype... you can do this with
> > wicontrol (man 8 wicontrol).
> 
> Thank you.  I do that that via wicontrol in /etc/start_if.wi0

I urge you to switch to using ifconfig to do this. wicontrol is still
able to do it in V4 but this will no longer work in V5.

ifconfig wi0 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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