Re: Two WLANs with the same SSID but different connection names

[Alexander Karlstad <alexander karlstad be>]

Den 18. sep. 2012 19:21, skrev Dan Williams:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 18:14 +0200, Alexander Karlstad wrote:
> > I've added two WLANs to my list in NM, both with the same SSID (eduroam)
> > but I've given them different names, e.g. «eduaroam (foo)» and «eduroam
> > (bar)». In nm-applet, «eduroam» appears, but with a sub list which shows
> > both «eduroam (foo)» and «eduroam (bar)»[1][2][3].
>
> This is definitely nm-applet, and not the GNOME Shell applet, right?

It's the nm-applet, yes.

> > I took this as a sign that NM understood the difference between the two
> > networks (well, it's the same network, but different auth info), but
> > that doesn't seem to be the case. It only connects using the cridentials
> > from one of the connections (in my case, the «eduroam (foo)») regardless
> > of which of them I select.
>
> Also, can you verify from /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log (or
> wherever the syslog daemon facility goes) that NM is actually only ever
> activating the single connection even if you choose the other one?  NM
> prints out exactly which connection it's starting in the logs.

I will check this out this tomorrow and see if I can get something out 
of the log files.

> Unfortunately there's no good way to autoselect which connection to use
> here, because with WiFi the SSID *is* the network identifier.  And since
> you're using a large campus network, you can't lock to a single BSSID.
> So thanks to the (IMHO) network misconfiguration here, you're kinda
> stuck choosing which connection to use manually.  Ideally they'd
> configure the network so that if you authenticated correctly, all
> resources are available.

That's no problem at all. It's just that it doesnt care about which of 
the connections I choose manually.

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Alexander Karlstad