Hello Dan, Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2012, 19:19:52 schrieb Dan Williams: > On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 18:13 +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > > at my location i sometimes notice that different WLAN-routers broadcasts > > the same SSID, but different frequencies and MAC-addresses. They also > > require different (WPA1/2-) keys to access. But i have only the access > > key of one of this access points. > > So this is somewhat bad network planning, because it means you cannot > roam between access points. That's somewhat worked around by the > locking to WPA1 vs. WPA2. NM actually *does* have the functionality to > lock a connection to WPA1 or WPA2, but it's not exposed in the UI > because it's incredibly stupid planning on the part of network > engineers, and in 6 years this is only the second case we've heard of > that would require that.
These networks are not owned/managed by me. So i don't have the possibility to get then changed. You seem have the impression that i am in the task of network planning. This is not true - i am a simple end user on this subject. > However, we'll probably end up adding an option to expose the > WPA1/WPA2/Automatic option in the UI by setting a gsettings key to > expose it. These dialogs already have enough toggles :( > > > The autoconnect feature of nm-applet (and hence network manager) seems to > > select the host to connect only by the SSID - which often fails. > > Correct, because with WiFi the SSID *is* the network; wifi networks with > the same SSID are expected to be backed by the same core network, and > you're expected to be able to roam between these APs. In fact (here in Germany) german telecom delivered WLAN-routers which all have preset the same (E)SSID. Shall i go to every household (even if i can locate them) in my environment to tell them to change their SSID ? And again at every location i travel to if the same SSID appears again ? Therefor i asked to use an other key additionaly > > Could i suggest to implement and use (/store) the MAC address of the WLAN > > access point as additional selection key (maybe optionally) ? > > This is already implemented as the "BSSID" option in the connection > editor; setting this to the BSSID of the access point you'd like to > connect to will limit that connection to only that AP. I saw the field in nm-applet's config system. What should be put into this field - the MAC address of the access point in question ? If it is an SSID it does not help me, because of duplicate SSIDs (as written above). At one time i was at a location where i saw 4 access points in range announcing the same SSID. These access points were *no* roaming ones, they seemed completely different dedicated ones. The MAC address of the access point's wlan interface (if not changed by the owner) is the unique key of it - as far as i know. The can be see by issuing for example iwlist <wlan if> list in the line Cell xx: Address <MAC> > This however > does break roaming quite spectacularly, because it disables roaming > completely. If you don't need roaming at all, try this. I do not need roaming for them. regards Petric _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
