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Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams
Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams
Posted Feb 26, 2008 18:12 UTC (Tue) by mwalls (guest, #6268)Parent article: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams
I have just finished ripping NetworkManager out of FC8 on my notebook (replacing it with knemo, wlassistant, & sudo). I can point out a couple mistaken design assumptions: a) wireless network with same SSID's are not necessarily the same network (grrrr, linksys). b) doesn't handle interfaces that power up/down & disappear/reappear well (ipw3945). c) autoconnect can't be disable for a device (not profiles, the whole device). Nice idea, but I'll check back in a year.
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Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams
Posted Feb 27, 2008 3:20 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]
hasn't NetworkManager included a blacklist for common "default" SSIDs for a long time?
Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams
Posted Feb 27, 2008 4:49 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
I hope not! That's certainly not an acceptable fix for the problem.
Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams
Posted Feb 28, 2008 14:57 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
"a) wireless network with same SSID's are not necessarily the same network (grrrr, linksys)." True, but if it distinguished networks by the AP's BSSID (MAC address) then it wouldn't work properly with multi-cell networks, which are exactly what ESSID enables. Interestingly, if you disable ESSID broadcasts then it can recognise the network by BSSID. So it might not be too hard to add the option to recognise other networks that way too.