OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi "auto-join"
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#3TREX)
In a change which is bound to be welcomed widely, -current has gained"auto-join" for Wi-Fi networks.Peter Hessler (phessler@) has been working on this for quite some time and he wrote about it in his p2k18 hackathon report. He has committedthe work from the g2k18 hackathon in Ljubljana:
CVSROOT:/cvsModule name:srcChanges by:phessler@cvs.openbsd.org2018/07/11 14:18:09Modified files:sbin/ifconfig : ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c sys/net80211 : ieee80211_ioctl.c ieee80211_ioctl.h ieee80211_node.c ieee80211_node.h ieee80211_var.h Log message:Introduce 'auto-join' to the wifi 802.11 stack.This allows a system to remember which ESSIDs it wants to connect to, anyrelevant security configuration, and switch to it when the network we arecurrently connected to is no longer available.