On Jan 17, 2006, at 13:41, Stuffed Crust wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:24:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
If I have told my equipment to obey UK law I expect it to do so.
If I hop on the train to France and forget to revise my
configuration I'd prefer it also believed the APs
It's not that you might forget to revise your configuration, but
that the vast majority of users will not revise anything, and still
expect things to "just work". Kind of like multi-band cell phones.
Alan's point is still very valid. From a poweruser point of view, if
I specifically tell my wireless client "You must obey US laws", and
then I wander over past a broken imported AP, I don't want my client
to _expand_ its allowable range. IMHO, userspace should be able to
forcibly restrict wireless frequencies to a certain regdomain (or
leave unrestricted and passive-scan-only), and specify how AP/
configured regdomains act. Given the range of possibilities, I think
that a userspace daemon monitoring events and dynamically configuring
the useable frequencies would best. That way the userspace daemon
could be configured to ignore APs, union/intersect the APs with the
configured regdomain, ignore the configured regdomain in the presence
of APs, etc.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
I lost interest in "blade servers" when I found they didn't throw
knives at people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room.
-- Anthony de Boer
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