RE: applet and wireless scan

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:55 +0100, Pascal Vree wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am wondering if there is some body allready busy with integrating
> openvpn into the network manager... if so, could he or she contact me
> for I would like to support him or her; if nobody is integrating
> openvpn into the network manager perhaps I can start with the work
> needed to do so.

There is currently an OpenVPN plugin for NetworkManager, but it hasn't
been updated in a while and may have bugs and such.  Any of those are
fair game to solve.

Thanks!
Dan


> greets Pascal
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Dan Williams [mailto:dcbw redhat com]
> Sent:   Thu 3/8/2007 9:48 PM
> To:     yelo_3
> Cc:     network manager
> Subject:        Re: applet and wireless scan
> 
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 19:40 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> > > That's almost certainly a driver issue.  If the driver is saying
> that
> > > quality of the AP is 30%, but you cannot connect, then the driver
> is
> > > wrong.  The driver should be factoring all necessary information
> into
> > > the "quality" measurement.
> >
> > I will post a bug to ipw2200 tracer, thank you for the suggestion!
> >
> > > An issue here is that a scan is technically a DoS on the card.  If
> you
> > > have an existing connection, you should not be able to repeatedly
> > > trigger scans.  So no matter what, you should never be able to
> > > immediately trigger more than one scan if you are not root.
> >
> > quite wired that the scan is a DoS!
> > I didn't understand why more than one scan should be triggered, to
> have an up-to-date list after one click
> 
> That's not the point.  If you do a steady click-click-click on the
> applet, that should not trigger a new scan each click.  At best, you'd
> click, NM would scan, and if you clicked again within 5 or 10 seconds
> you're out of luck.
> 
> So you'll never be able to get instantaneous scans _every_ time you
> click on the applet, because that's a denial of service.
> 
> Dan
> 
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