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 ;-)
