On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:42:41AM +0100, dennis knorr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [...]
> 
> My wishes/requirements would be:
> * possibility to configure timeout for non-successfull connection
> attempt with 802.1x/wpa supplicant (on cable/wireless)

The timeout is now hardcoded to 25 seconds:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/src/devices/nm-device-ethernet.c?id=1.6-rc1#n800

In order to make it configurable we probably can add a new
per-connection "802-1x.auth-timeout" (or similar) property.

> * possibility to configure number of retries for connection attempts
> with 802.1x/wpa supplicant (on cable/wireless)

This is already possible with NM 1.6 using the
connection.autoconnect-retries property.

> * possibility for  a mixed network to send after the connection attempt
> (but not waiting for the successfull completion) a dhcp request, so we
> already get perhaps an IP.

I think this could lead to confusion, as it would allow the connection
to a 802.1x secured profile without actual authentication (see [1] for
more details).

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723084

In my opinion, the proper solution is to use 2 different connection
profiles, and implement a configurable 802.1x timeout to speed up the
switch to the non-authenticated profile.

Beniamino

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