Roaming functionality with wpasupplicant (was: [pkg-wpa-devel] cleaning up our suggested modes of use)

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:24:49AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Or are you simply a bit annoyed that roaming is now intrinsicly possible with 
> the "new order" package, and you have to dig up a wpa_supplicant.conf file 
> again to make use of the new feature?

Yes, that's my only beef.

> > I remember using whereami from the whereami package back in 2004 when
> > my notebook began changing wired networks multiple times a day, and I
> > didn't like it because a lot of features were missing (especially if
> > no DHCP is in use). On the wired connection, I am using guessnet in
> > the mean time - is there a possibility to have wpasupplicant roam with
> > guessnet instead of whereami?
> 
> I think guessnet is far more appropriate, fwiw. It is far more feature 
> complete than whereami (imo), and has an ifupdown function. In fact, I 
> seriously considered its usage in the current wpa_action script, here are the 
> reasons why I did not:

[valid reasons snipped]

> I probably had more thoughts about guessnet at the time, but cannot recall 
> them. Please add your 2c worth.

thanks for listing your reasons. I understand and think you're right.

> I like Reinhard's idea of providing a framework for allowing such a plugin 
> interface to provide "roaming logic". However, at this point in time, I do 
> not consider logic provided outside of wpa_supplicant in any way superior, or 
> even required. I simply find guessing the network, when it is already known, 
> unnecessary.

It might be necessary when one roams between two dumbly-configured
networks, probably named "WLAN" or "NETG**R".

Greetings
Marc

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