On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: > > 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. > > Unfortunately, this does not work as I want ...wpa_supplicant's > behaviour makes sense in that it provides a fallback if the allocated > access point cant connect ... it will pick the next available one > (seemingly based on signal strength) if it is in its conf file (and > does not care that its another ssid) - so it does not fail. As only > one of the two networks has internet access the device often ends up > not being able to be connected to (its headless so that's a problem!). > > I have fallen back to openrc for the main connection and will do the > other manually - it would be nice to have everything properly > controlled but its not working for me.
Could you run two instances of wpa_suplicant, each listening on a different interface and using a config with only the AP for that interface? -- Neil Bothwick Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again
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