At my college (Cal Poly, SLO), all the wireless access points use the
same SSID, but each is on a different subnet.  When I roam from one
access point to another, my connection mysteriously breaks without
notice... and thinks it's still up.  It seems NetworkManager can't
handle different access points with same SSID and different subnets.
Another interesting note: these access points do not use NAT -- instead,
it gives true internet IPs.

Here's one possible fix: on roaming to a different SSID, NetworkManager
should try to ping the old default route / gateway..... and if it's not
reachable, it should re-run dhclient.   (Of course, you'd have to make
allowances for gateways set not to respond to pings.)

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WiFi roaming causes NetworkManager to lose routing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201202
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