Re: WPA connection/reconnection timeouts

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:22 +0200, Fionn Behrens wrote:
> Andrew Baumann wrote:
> 
> > I've rebuilt with limits of 40s and 30s respectively, and this works well for 
> > me (no more failed connections or dropouts). I can see why you might be 
> > hesitant to increase these timeouts by default, but can I suggest that they 
> > be set in a configuration file?
> 
> I have created a patch for this, which is attached to launchpad where this 
> problem has been filed for months: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/64173
> 
> The patch allows setting the timeout at runtime via nm-tool. Unfortunately 
> it seems to have gone totally unnoticed by now, despite the fact that the 
> bug appears to be linked to upstream (bugzilla.gnome.org).

It's not unnoticed, it's just the wrong fix for the problem and
therefore won't get upstream into NetworkManager.

Dan

> There are also a couple of other stupid hard coded values in NM that 
> should be configurable IMHO but I didn't have time to tackle them yet.
> 
> kind regards,
> 		Fionn
> 
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