:: Re: [DNG] Better late than never
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Autor: aitor_czr
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Temat: 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 local IP address are no longer valid or available because the laptop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.

Cheers,

Aitor.