RE: applet and wireless scan

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 08:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.

Right now the openvpn integration is working quite well for me.  Now
that we are past the initial gui problems and organization we should
have a clear road ahead for adding more options and functionality.

I haven't seen a response on the last batch of patches I submitted based
on the mock ups I did (with the advanced modal dialog).  Would you
rather I post those in a new bugzilla?

Jon

> 
> 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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