Re: WPA connection/reconnection timeouts

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 06:53 +0200, Grant Williamson wrote:
> Dan,
>     could not this be added viewed as an advanced configuration option, 
> rather than a fix(which it is not).

No, it's _wrong_.  It's the easy way out and doesn't fix the real
underlying issue.

Dan

> 
> 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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