RE: applet and wireless scan

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:19 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> 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?

Nah, just haven't gotten around to it quite yet.  But I'm going to
commit them.

Dan


> 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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