On Sáb, 2014-05-03 at 10:57 +0200, John Page wrote: > Where I live many internet providers run free access widely available > wifi routers for their clients. My own router has two access points - > my private one, and an insecure one that only allows internet access > after you have correctly identified yourself on a welcome page. I use > that when I am not at home but then at home I have to explicitly > select my home access point. > Hi, I had the same problem, so I went to "edit connections" and disable "Automatically connect to this network when available" to free access connections .
> It is high time network-manager started doing something more > intelligent in those cases. I'd suggest simply preferring secure APs > to start with. > > I've been reading the sources and here is what I have found. > > > src/devices/nm-device-wifi.c:build_hidden_probe_list is called in > order to list the APs that we might want to connect to. > > > The above function > calls src/settings/nm-settings.c:get_best_connections which reads > stored connections from storage, sorts them > using src/settings/nm-settings.c:nm_settings_sort_connections and > returns the top 5. > > > Here are my conclusions: (they aren't criticisms, I just want to be > sure I have understood correctly.) > > > * network-manager doesn't ask for a list of available access points, > it just asks the supplicant to connect to one of its preferred > networks if they are available (presumably for performance). > * network-manager will never auto-connect to a stored network that > doesn't get into the top 5 - or does it check the whole list > afterwards. > * if several stored APs are found, the first one in the list is chosen > even if it has the weakest signal - or does the supplicant have some > say in the matter? > * the sorting code is in a wifi agnostic context so prioritizing > secure networks would (ideally) need some re-factoring. For example, > get_best_connections could return the whole list and let > build_hidden_probe_list do the sorting. > > > Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
