Author: aitor_czr Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Better late than never
Hi Alessandro,
El 19/09/18 a las 21:36, Alessandro Selli escribió: >
> On 19/09/18 at 20:34, aitor_czr wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> El 19/09/18 a las 20:08, J. Fahrner escribió:
>>>
>>> Am 2018-09-19 14:18, schrieb aitor_czr:
>>>
>>>> From my point of view a suspend/resume should automatically connect
>>>> to a known network when it wakes up, just as a reboot does. Antony.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This will be easy to do; automatically connect to an available
>>>> installed wifi after suspend/reboot.
>>>> The only thing i'd not like to do is to scan the active wifis at
>>>> every x seconds throughout all the
>>>> user's session.
>>>
>>> Reconnect to the last connected wifi would be perfect! No new
>>> scanning needed.
>>>
>>> Jochen
>>>
>>
>> Try to connect to a concrete wifi without the conviction about its
>> existence? Mmm..., sorry but it makes little sense...
>
>
> There's nothing bad in failing. Clients do retry their last good
> TCP connections when they wake up, only to find out the routing and
> local IP address are no longer valid or available because the laptop
> moved physically away from the old network. Like they are let fail
> their connections gracefully, so reconnecting to the last known good
> WiFi AP can be allowed to fail: if it's lucky, it's going to reconnect
> to the last AP really fast, otherwise it's going to have to rescan the
> waves in search of some known AP.
>
> Unless there are security concerns in doing this, I would like my
> laptop to behave like this.
>
>
> Alessandro
I have an idea: to save the list of all the neighbors for each saved
wifi. So, the scanner would be activated only in case of some detection
because of the chance of finding.