[opensuse] 13.1 - NetworkManager - Can you prioritize connections?
All, Using traditional ifup for wireless, wpa_supplicant.conf allowed you to prioritize wireless connections by ordering the entries within the file. NetworkManager does not rely on entries in wpa_supplicant.conf for wireless credentials, and thus that manner of prioritizing has gone away. man NetworkManager mentions only execution priority for "scripts in the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d directory in alphabetical order in response to network events", but is otherwise silent on connection priority. Can you prioritize wifi connections in NetworkManager so that if 5 connections are available, you can specify the one that it tried/used first? If so, how? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
David,
If you're making the jump to a new system, you should jump to wicked (not wicd, that is a different thing).
It will be the default network control app for SLES 12 due out this fall. It is in OBS and factory/13.2 now. I don't know if it will be default for 13.2, but I think is in factory currently.
Greg
On July 29, 2014 9:45:48 PM EDT, "David C. Rankin"
All,
Using traditional ifup for wireless, wpa_supplicant.conf allowed you to
prioritize wireless connections by ordering the entries within the file. NetworkManager does not rely on entries in wpa_supplicant.conf for wireless credentials, and thus that manner of prioritizing has gone away. man NetworkManager mentions only execution priority for "scripts in the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d directory in alphabetical order in response to network events", but is otherwise silent on connection priority.
Can you prioritize wifi connections in NetworkManager so that if 5 connections are available, you can specify the one that it tried/used first? If so, how?
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On 07/29/2014 08:57 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
If you're making the jump to a new system, you should jump to wicked (not wicd, that is a different thing).
It will be the default network control app for SLES 12 due out this fall. It is in OBS and factory/13.2 now. I don't know if it will be default for 13.2, but I think is in factory currently.
Greg, Andrey, Thanks. I'll read up on wicked. What struck me as odd was that on one of my old 11.0 laptops, I have NetworkManager running, and in that case, it still relied on wpa_supplicant.conf to hold the wireless credentials allowing the manual priority. I was just surprised I couldn't find anything in the 13.1 information. Manual priority is fairly important. Especially in an office environment where you may have 5+ APs with roughly equal signal strength. (especially when some are not yours...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:35 AM, David C. Rankin
On 07/29/2014 08:57 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
If you're making the jump to a new system, you should jump to wicked (not wicd, that is a different thing).
It will be the default network control app for SLES 12 due out this fall. It is in OBS and factory/13.2 now. I don't know if it will be default for 13.2, but I think is in factory currently.
Greg, Andrey,
Thanks. I'll read up on wicked. What struck me as odd was that on one of my old 11.0 laptops, I have NetworkManager running, and in that case, it still relied on wpa_supplicant.conf to hold the wireless credentials allowing the manual priority. I was just surprised I couldn't find anything in the 13.1 information.
Manual priority is fairly important. Especially in an office environment where you may have 5+ APs with roughly equal signal strength. (especially when some are not yours...)
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
For routine situations like home or office you can double click on each visible network and disable auto-connect. Of course you setup your real network to auto-connect. I think the default is auto-connect disabled when a new network appears, so the situation you are describing has never really come up as an issue for me. Greg . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
В Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:45:48 -0500
"David C. Rankin"
All,
Using traditional ifup for wireless, wpa_supplicant.conf allowed you to prioritize wireless connections by ordering the entries within the file. NetworkManager does not rely on entries in wpa_supplicant.conf for wireless credentials, and thus that manner of prioritizing has gone away. man NetworkManager mentions only execution priority for "scripts in the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d directory in alphabetical order in response to network events", but is otherwise silent on connection priority.
Can you prioritize wifi connections in NetworkManager so that if 5 connections are available, you can specify the one that it tried/used first? If so, how?
As far as I know it is not possible. NM will prefer AP it was last connected to, otherwise it selects one with best signal quality. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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