On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Dan Winship <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/30/2013 12:43 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
> > If not, I could use the 2 different connections (which work fairly well
> > for the majority of my use cases.) However there are some minor issues
> > with that set up that I need to address. One is how to switch between
> > the connections. If I presume I have 2 connections (A for Auth and U for
> > UnAuth) how do I get NM to always try A first? My understanding is that
> > NM will try the 'last successful' connection first. Is there any sort of
> > API to specify priorities, such that when the interface is toggled, A
> > will always be tried before U?
>
> I think the best you can do right now is to set "automatically connect
> to this network" on A, but not on U. Then it will try A automatically,
> and if it fails, you can activate U manually.
>

That gets pretty tricky. For instance, a machine configured like this gets
taken home, and the user plugs into wired. A is tried automatically, and
fails (no 802.1x at home.) Then they have to manually enable U? Not gonna
fly with my users.

-A


>
> -- Dan
>
>
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