Re: nm-edit? Static entries?
On Wed, June 21, 2006 8:18 pm, Dan Williams wrote: So; I think at the moment, the plan is this [1]: [1] some bits are up for debate I don't know about debate but a thought or two You have mentioned worry that some parts of the core code are starting to experience some bloat eg. the wireless code with all the WPA. I wonder more and more if placing a DBUS interface between the NetworkManager core (the switching magic, routing code etc.) and all connection types might be an interesting route forward (long-term)? More immediately, the static IP config stuff could be implemented quite trivially as yup ... you've guessed it... a ~cough~ VPN ~cough~ plugin. The architecture provides a neat dbus interface precisely to set 'static' IP4Config, routing information etc. one some interface. There is a question of whether a static connection should optionally choose which interface it should use or whether NM should choose but otherwise the VPN arch. provides: All the necessary DBUS interface and methods Configuration architecture (both the Gconf stuff and UI stuff) Import / export architecture. Removes any potential bloat in the core code. There is a small amount of boolean architecture needed to assist NM/applets decide what connections to use or show at any time but this is very general stuff that is needed for the VPN anyhow. Recent revelations regarding the use of DBUS_DICT_TYPEs in the current VPN dbus interface should also remove any worries about futureproofing such a general purpose dbus interface. I still think why write 3 interfaces when one will do. tOnY PS. In such an architecture, sys admins wishing to limit the connection types users may use on a machine can do so by simply deleting/not installing the appropriate plugins. Such power, yet no special code needed in the NM core! ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
wpa_supplicant
I am having a hard time filding wpa_supplicant. I downloaded a source for it but when I compiled it I got the error that SCARD_S_SUCCESS was undeclared. Any help out there? Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: nm-edit? Static entries?
Antony J Mee wrote: More immediately, the static IP config stuff could be implemented quite trivially as yup ... you've guessed it... a ~cough~ VPN ~cough~ plugin. The architecture provides a neat dbus interface precisely to set 'static' IP4Config, routing information etc. one some interface. There is a question of whether a static connection should optionally choose which interface it should use or whether NM should choose but otherwise the VPN arch. provides: This is a very interesting approach. Is it feasible? --Pat ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Early timeouts connecting to unencrypted network with ndiswrapper on FC5
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 17:55 -0400, Peter Williams wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:23 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Sounds an awful lot like the ndiswrapper driver is broken in some way; if you can't connect with (a) the command line tools from wireless-tools and (b) you can't connect with wpa_supplicant, then NM's not going to work. First, I'd try to figure out the scan problem; from a terminal, do you get scan results from /sbin/iwlist eth whatever scan consistently? I also hear that ndiswrapper has better WEXT support now too. Does wpa_supplicant not work with the -Dwext option at all? Yeah, only later did I notice a line in my /var/log/messages from wpa_supplicant saying that -Dndiswrapper has been deprecated in favor of -Dwext. It turns out that sometimes I can associate and get my connection working. So the problem becomes one that I've had with before, on different hardware: with some networks, association intermittently times out in Stage 2 of the connection process. After doing some digging, I'm pretty sure that the issue in such situations is that you can (barely) receive packets from the base station, but that it can't receive packets from the weaker antenna on your wifi card. In the general Stage 2 timeout case, NM doesn't have much information to go on, but some kind of notification saying what the likely problem is would be very helpful, IMHO. If drivers were better, and we could trust their strength information (which we can't), we'd likely even remove APs from the scan list if their strength was 15% or something like that. Anything below that and you're pretty much screwed. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Early timeouts connecting to unencrypted network with ndiswrapper on FC5
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 10:53 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: If drivers were better, and we could trust their strength information (which we can't), we'd likely even remove APs from the scan list if their strength was 15% or something like that. Anything below that and you're pretty much screwed. We are almost to the point, though, where we can trust strength values, no? I think Orinoco does strength with the latest driver, no? And madwifi has bogus strength, but I have a patch to fix that (special cases the driver, though). Would be nice to remove, as you say, low scoring AP's. Robert Love ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: How to set up Bind/SplitDNS on FC5?
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 08:55 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: I'm running FC5 with the following packages: NetworkManager-0.6.3-1.fc5 bind-9.3.2-20.FC5 bind-config-9.3.2-20.FC5 I have named running, but /etc/resolv.conf still points to the DNS server provided by DHCP and not the local caching resolver. Is there some manual configuration I need to do to get this working, other than just setting up named to run at boot? I would've assumed that the bind/bind-config packages would have set the appropriate configurations for NM in FC5. I guess I've assumed wrong, but I can't seem to find any instructions for what changes I might need to make to get this feature working. I thought they did; make sure that bind is running with the -D option. Just checked, and a basic install of FC6 (rawhide) doesn't turn this on by default either. Which might explain some of the stupidity I've been seeing WRT to networking changes recently on my laptop. Note that split DNS, while possible, isn't quite used yet. We've got all the bits in place, just need to hook it up for VPN. Dan Thanks, -derek ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: How to set up Bind/SplitDNS on FC5?
Quoting Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I thought they did; make sure that bind is running with the -D option. Just checked, and a basic install of FC6 (rawhide) doesn't turn this on by default either. Which might explain some of the stupidity I've been seeing WRT to networking changes recently on my laptop. Okay. I hand-modified /etc/sysconfig/named and added OPTIONS=-D and now named is reporting dbus service. Should I file a bug against named for this? I have no idea if it should be running with the DBUS service enabled by default. Note that split DNS, while possible, isn't quite used yet. We've got all the bits in place, just need to hook it up for VPN. Oh, it isn't? Hmm... Then what does that mean for a VPN situation? When I VPNC into my corporate net I need to use the corporate DNS servers. If I'm using named. How would this work right now? Dan -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
HOWTO : get rid of the DEBUG option in FC5
Title: Message Hi everybody, In FC5, it looks like the debug option (-d) is activated by default. The /var/log/messages log file is filling every few seconds with connection settings... How to disable this ? It looks like the '-d' flag is like hardcoded...??? Any help appreciated Regards. Didier ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: How to set up Bind/SplitDNS on FC5?
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:09 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I thought they did; make sure that bind is running with the -D option. Just checked, and a basic install of FC6 (rawhide) doesn't turn this on by default either. Which might explain some of the stupidity I've been seeing WRT to networking changes recently on my laptop. Okay. I hand-modified /etc/sysconfig/named and added OPTIONS=-D and now named is reporting dbus service. Should I file a bug against named for this? I have no idea if it should be running with the DBUS service enabled by default. Note that split DNS, while possible, isn't quite used yet. We've got all the bits in place, just need to hook it up for VPN. Oh, it isn't? Hmm... Then what does that mean for a VPN situation? When I VPNC into my corporate net I need to use the corporate DNS servers. If I'm using named. How would this work right now? If you start a VPN, all DNS traffic is funneled to the corporate nameservers that the VPN reports back to NM. If split DNS were running, you'd only use the corporate nameservers for addresses ending in the corporate domain name that the VPN provided, or ones you specified in the VPN config, instead of everything. Think of it like the split routing that we've already got. Dan Dan -derek ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
