Re: WPA connection/reconnection timeouts

[Grant Williamson <traxtopel gmail com>]

Dan,
   could not this be added viewed as an advanced configuration option, 
rather than a fix(which it is not).

Dan Williams wrote:
> 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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