Hi Denis, On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:06 AM Denis Kenzior <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Giacinto, > > >> Reading through your patches, I'm missing an overarching explanation of > >> why we need this. Do you really have an LTE network in range that > >> requires authentication for the default APN? > > > > yes, quite a few of them actually. > > And all private APN I have seen so far require authentication, even > > for the combined attach. > > > > Are these networks something a typical user would see? Or is this > mainly for M2M type usecases?
My focus is mainly M2M use cases, but also public networks may require authentication. > > Fundamentally this whole username / password for a default bearer > activation is utterly insane. The network provider has your IMSI, it > can lookup whether you're authorized for that APN or not, or suggest you > an APN that will work... But I digress.. There is also another problem: the default and data context APN is often the same, and if the auth is not set for both in the same way, the context activation fails. But I digress too. > > > > > Shall I extend the explanation? > > An extended explanation is always a good idea. Especially for something > that seems to be pretty esoteric. > > > There wasn't much of an explanation why we need a default APN for LTE, > > either. > > > > Sure there was. Not sure why you say that :) Maybe it wasn't recorded > in the git commit but it was discussed on the mailing list, IRC, etc. > But again, see above. The whole default attach APN needing to be > provisioned by the client is utterly insane. I prefer not to comment on these practices. For instance, is there an archive of the chat and mailing list that I or anyone could access? > > Regards, > -Denis Regards, Giacinto _______________________________________________ ofono mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ofono.org/mailman/listinfo/ofono
