[pkg-wpa-devel] A challenge: wpa_supplicant + wlan button + zeroconf

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:25:04PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> >OK, I see. Then this actually provides a new challenge, right?
> 
> This challenge is present on various levels: driver, supplicant, 
> environment, location, other software etc. Buffering the action script 
> itself simply will not work; the action events appear once, and once 
> only. We don't want to miss them because we were queuing a previous 
> action to see if it was transient or not.
> 
> Its a valid idea, but maybe not within the scope of such a simplistic 
> roaming scheme.

I agree. We cannot and don't want to provide a complete and complex
roaming solution in the wpasupplicant package. This is up to network
policy daemons like network-manager.

Let me give an example: What if you want to stop wifi when you plugin an
ethernet interface? Or what if it should do interface bonding? No, let
that up to a policy daemon.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard