Re: 802.1x wired authentication

[Alec Warner <antarus google com>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Dan Winship <danw gnome org> wrote:

On 08/30/2013 12:43 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
> If not, I could use the 2 different connections (which work fairly well
> for the majority of my use cases.) However there are some minor issues
> with that set up that I need to address. One is how to switch between
> the connections. If I presume I have 2 connections (A for Auth and U for
> UnAuth) how do I get NM to always try A first? My understanding is that
> NM will try the 'last successful' connection first. Is there any sort of
> API to specify priorities, such that when the interface is toggled, A
> will always be tried before U?

I think the best you can do right now is to set "automatically connect
to this network" on A, but not on U. Then it will try A automatically,
and if it fails, you can activate U manually.

That gets pretty tricky. For instance, a machine configured like this gets taken home, and the user plugs into wired. A is tried automatically, and fails (no 802.1x at home.) Then they have to manually enable U? Not gonna fly with my users.

-A

 

-- Dan