On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 05:20:25PM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> By automatic connections I understood netman using the available
> essids for which it knows the password to connect. This means, it does
> not attempt to connect if no essid file is found under
> /etc/network/wifi.
>
> Edward
The user should bee able to control which connexions are made
automatically. There may well be essids which I do not want to be
connected to automatically even though I have used them in the past.
-- hendrik
>
>
>
> On 13/09/2015, ibid.ag@??? <ibid.ag@???> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 02:35:43PM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> As I am approaching the final stages of Pre-Alpha development, I would
> >> like to ask how netman should behave when 'automatic connections' are
> >> enabled.
> >
> >> Needless to state the obvious, here, we are not doing Microsoft, but
> >> rather, we want to keep netman as simple as it can be. Yes, there are
> >> opinions contrary to what I am doing, but the world is such, that we
> >> cannot please everyone.
> >>
> >> At the moment, I am thinking about how netman should behave when
> >> automatic searching and connecting to wifi hotspots is enabled. I
> >> already have an idea how this can be achieved, but I want to use the
> >> least of processing time possible, knowing from experience how network
> >> managers that think for themselves can be made to almost clog the
> >> system.
> >
> > May I suggest that you step back and take a look at the big picture?
> >
> > As I see it, the big picture is more-or-less this:
> >
> > -netman is a gui to configure and manage ifup, which uses wpa_supplicant
> > plugins to connect to specific pre-configured wireless interfaces.
> >
> > -ifup is a one-shot tool to configure network interfaces, featuring
> > a great capacity for plugins. It cannot handle wireless itself,
> > but there is a wpa_supplicant plugin.
> >
> > -wpa_supplicant is a daemon designed to autoconnect to wireless
> > networks, supporting roaming and just about every type of wireless
> > network.
> >
> > -the wpa_supplicant plugins are scripts that allow "ifup wlan0"
> > to configure wlan0 in EITHER of two ways:
> > (a) start wpa_supplicant with no config and add a single network:
> > iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> > wpa-ssid "foo"
> > wpa-psk "topsecretpassword"
> > (b) start wpa_supplicant with a pre-defined config containing all
> > the networks, and configure the interface on connection:
> > iface wlan0 inet manual
> > wpa-roam "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"
> >
> > iface default inet dhcp
> >
> >
> > It's seemed rather odd to me that netman ignores wpa-roam.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Isaac Dunham
> >
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