Hi Edward, On 09/13/2015 02:35 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: > At the moment, I am thinking about how netman should behave when > automatic searching and connecting to wifi hotspots is enabled. I > already have an idea how this can be achieved, but I want to use > the least of processing time possible, knowing from experience how > network managers that think for themselves can be made to almost > clog the system.
Things that come to my mind: These are obvious, and i am sure you already do that anyway: 1. I never would want to be automatically connected to a WiFi i have not manually connected to previously at least once. 2. I never would want to be disconnected from a WiFi just because a different WiFi network becomes available. 3. Manual connections should be preferred over automatic ones. Maybe there is the possibility to have a treshhold of some sort, to avoid rapidly connecting / disconnecting a WiFi network. The WiFi could have a weak signal strength or some other reason that makes it unreliable; the treshhold should go over logins / time, meaning something like this (i picked the actual numbers out of thin air): more than 1 automatic login per minute on SSID X over a period of 2 minutes leads to: disable automatic connection to X for 30 minutes Users could then still connect manually. Kind regards, T. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
