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

[Marius Kotsbak <marius kotsbak com>]

Den 25. sep. 2012 14:30, skrev Derek Atkins:
> Alexander Karlstad <alexander karlstad be> writes:
>
> > > So, if you have two networks with the same SSID and both use WPA/WPA2,
> > > then NM will select the *last used* connection.  Because, for all NM
> > > knows (and a lot of other wifi managers too) they are the same network
> > > because they use the same SSID and same security type.  It's pretty bad
> > > network planning to use the same SSID for actually different networks.
> > But this is not two different networks per se. The Eduroam-network is
> > used all over the world at different educational institutions. The
> > only difference here is that I have a user account at two different
> > colleges, and sometimes you just get basic access when using a
> > username/password from a different college. That's why I want to be
> > able to use the two separatley.
> >
> > The workaround was disabling autoconnect for this network, but it
> > feels very much like a bug when I manually select which network I want
> > to connect to doesn't work. Even though DBUS tells me it's using the
> > right cridentials.
> >
> > Maybe it's possible for someone else to test this?
> Perhaps a better way of describing eduroam is not that there are two
> networks per-se, but rather you have two sets of authentication
> credentials that you want to use on the same network, and you want to be
> able to choose which set of credentials to use for any particular
> connection.

Still bad network planning, since the "roaming" identity could have been 
associated with the correct local privileges without the need for using 
the local credentials.

--
Marius