On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 14:18, Stefan Sperling wrote: > If you are bringing an interface up, you're telling the kernel > that you want link on it. Of course, we could stop connecting > to the strongest open network and always require users to type > an nwid before they get link. But that can be annoying in cases > where you don't know which network has the best signal. > But the kernel can tell. I used this feature just last weekend at > eurobsdcon which had 2 wifi networks, where one or the other was > better depending on where I was sitting.
The problem is that a wifi interface can have many "links". This would be like running ifconfig em0 up, and it also bringing up em1, em2, etc... > > So instead of patching the kernel, I'd suggest you run: > > ifconfig iwn0 down # default state after boot > ifconfig iwn0 scan > ifconfig iwn0 nwid foo > ifconfig iwn0 up # or: dhclient iwn0 That looks like a lot of work. Revamping autoassoc to include WPA networks seems like a good opportunity to remove the "any and all open" networks feature.
