When bringing down the wireless interface used for hostapd, the messages
overlap:
# ifdown wlan1
Stopping HOSTAP Daemon: stopped /usr/sbin/hostapd (pid 569)
hostapd.
Adding the 'quiet' option to start-stop-daemon command fixes the
cosmetic issue.
# ifdown wlan1
Stopping HOSTAP Daemon: hostapd.
Signed-off-by: Javier Viguera <javier.viguera@digi.com>
The current script cannot launch the hostapd twice (for dual HostAP mode)
because start-stop-daemon finds an already existing PID for hostapd after
running the first instance.
The solution is:
- Do not launch the hostapd in background (so that it does not fork the
process, which assigns a different PID)
- Use -b option of start-stop-daemon so that it launches the daemon in
the background.
- Let start-stop-daemon create the PID (since the hostapd will not fork
now this PID will match the hostapd process, allowing to kill it later)
This solution also hides the hostapd log messages that appeared before.
Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
https://jira.digi.com/browse/DEL-4045
The original init script hardcodes the configuration file to use so it
cannot be re-utilized for concurrent AP/AP mode where two interfaces can
be used as SoftAP.
This commit uses the variable ${IFACE} to:
- select a specific configuration file per interface:
/etc/hostapd_${IFACE}.conf
- create a specific PID file per interface:
/var/run/hostapd.${IFACE}.pid
With this, the /etc/network/interfaces can use the script for using SoftAP
in different wireless interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Javier Viguera
Hector Palacios