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On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: |
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> > On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: |
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> >> On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> >>> Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular |
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> >>> access point to an interface or fail? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two |
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> >>> wifi interfaces - unfortunately they are not equal so I want wlan0 |
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> >>> to connect to only one particular AP, and wlan1 to the other ... |
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> >>> reliably! I can manually force it to connect but invariably at the |
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> >>> first glitch they both end up connected to the same AP (usually the |
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> >>> strongest which is often not what I want :( |
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> >>> |
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> >>> BillK |
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> >> I don't know about wpa-supplicant, but I'm using open-rc and KDE, and |
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> >> KDE's systemsettings Network / Connections screen lets you restrict a |
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> >> network connection so a specific device. Not sure if this helps you |
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> >> any, but it would indicate that what you want is possible. |
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> >> |
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> >> Jack |
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> > Look at the example provided in: |
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> > /usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.7.3/net.example.bz2 |
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> > |
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> > You can set a different ssid for each wireless NIC. The |
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> > wpa_supplicant can be set with credentials for the two APs only. |
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> Unfortunately, this does not work as I want ...wpa_supplicant's |
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> behaviour makes sense in that it provides a fallback if the allocated |
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> access point cant connect ... it will pick the next available one |
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> (seemingly based on signal strength) if it is in its conf file (and |
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> does not care that its another ssid) - so it does not fail. As only |
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> one of the two networks has internet access the device often ends up |
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> not being able to be connected to (its headless so that's a problem!). |
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> I have fallen back to openrc for the main connection and will do the |
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> other manually - it would be nice to have everything properly |
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> controlled but its not working for me. |
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Could you run two instances of wpa_suplicant, each listening on a |
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different interface and using a config with only the AP for that |
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interface? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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trouble again |
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