Subject: Re: Initial stab at QT based wifi browser. Comments?
To: Martijn van Buul <martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/19/2006 08:28:17
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:14:44 +0000 (UTC), Martijn van Buul
<martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl> wrote:

> It occurred to me that Ignatios Souvatzis wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel:
> >> If you want to have useful roaming support, I think you'd need to have a
> >> background daemon connecting to whatever network it "knows". I kind of like
> >> that feature from (excusez-moi le mot) Windows XP. 
> >
> > Recently, somebody (I think Steven Bellovin) has posted a recipe on
> > how to configure dhclient to do this.
> 
> IIRC he posted an 'It would be cool if we could make it work this way..' thing
> which sparked off that project idea for last year's SoC :)
> 
> See 
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2005/06/07/0029.html
> 
> I'm not convinced you can build a decent roaming setup merely by using
> our current dhclient and a script. I think it requires a little more subtlety;
> Steven points this out. 
> 
Yup.  I'm still thinking about how best to do it...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb