On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 07:44:45AM -0600, Chris Lobkowicz wrote: > > Good day, I am curious if there is the possibility of adding/using > multiple > > profiles or network entries, much like ~/.ssh/config ? > > > > eg: > > > > In /etc/hostname.iwn0 > > > > nwid primary > > wpakey key > > dhcp > > > > ???nwid ???secondary > > wpakey key > > dhcp > > > > > > Is this possible? I would imagine that wrapping some sort of > > identifiers/formatting around the network information would be required, > > much like the ssh/config parameters. > > > > Net primary { > > nwid primary > > wpakey key > > dhcp > > } > > Net secondary { > > nwid secondary > > wpakey key > > dhcp > > } > > > > > > The manpage of hostname.if(5) does not specifically mention/allow for > this. > > > > > > > > My work-around for this is to have all my locations/ap's use the same > nwid > > where possible. And where not, just use # comments in my hostname.if > files > > and just manually edit the appropriate entries in/out, and rerun > > /etc/netstart. > > > > Is it possible to bake this in, rather than going down the wpa_supplicant > > path as others have done? Or am I getting my hopes up for the sake of > being > > lazy? > > > > Thanks > > Chris > > Various people have written various scripts. > My own solution for this is here: https://github.com/mrdomino/autonet It relies on a config.h mapping bssids / nwids to filenames in a /etc/hostname.d directory. So you just write each config in a file like /etc/hostname.d/<ifname>.<profilename>, and autonet picks one to symlink to /etc/hostname.<ifname> based on the results of a scan, then defers to netstart to bring up the network. I've been using this daily since February. By now I've ironed out most bugs in autonet proper, although netpref-new could still use a bit of polish. I'd love to have more users to catch more edge cases. I have a call to autonet in /etc/apm/resume, and another in /etc/rc (a patch for the latter comes with the repo). I only ever have to run it manually when I'm adding a new network. > There is no built-in solution yet. Ideally, the wireless layer itself > would provide some help with supporting this. E.g. via support for > roaming, remembering networks that have been used, or other useful > features. But at present it does not. From my point of view we don't > have a very clear plan yet. There are various ideas floating around, > though. > I'd be into something like that! That said, I think it's really awesome that autonet is even possible on OpenBSD -- I believe that the equivalent program in, say, Linux would be significantly more complicated. > BTW this discussion comes up at +/- every hackathon I'm attending. > It's not just you ;-)