On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: > On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular > > access point to an interface or fail? > > > > I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two > > wifi interfaces - unfortunately they are not equal so I want wlan0 to > > connect to only one particular AP, and wlan1 to the other ... reliably! > > I can manually force it to connect but invariably at the first glitch > > they both end up connected to the same AP (usually the strongest which > > is often not what I want :( > > > > BillK > > I don't know about wpa-supplicant, but I'm using open-rc and KDE, and > KDE's systemsettings Network / Connections screen lets you restrict a > network connection so a specific device. Not sure if this helps you > any, but it would indicate that what you want is possible. > > Jack
Look at the example provided in: /usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.7.3/net.example.bz2 You can set a different ssid for each wireless NIC. The wpa_supplicant can be set with credentials for the two APs only.
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