NYC schools and cloaked APs

[Motaib Abdel]

The current wireless infrastructure uses open authentication with static
WEP and cloaked SSIDs.

 

Thanks

 

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From: ricardo.c.carrano at gmail.com [mailto:ricardo.c.carrano at gmail.com]
On Behalf Of Ricardo Carrano
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:02 PM
To: C. Scott Ananian
Cc: cortland.setlow at gmail.com; Lai Bruce; Motaib Abdel; Vigilante Steve;
Bentahar Latif; Kambouras Tom; Kerner Marty; Devel
Subject: Re: NYC schools and cloaked APs

 

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>
wrote:

	2008/5/3 Ricardo Carrano <carrano at laptop.org>:

	> NYC schools use cloaked access points to provide wireless
connectivity.
	> We currently do not support cloaked APs (and ... ok, they
hardly provide any
	> additional security).

	From looking through the code, the most elegant & supportable
solution
	seems to be to be to extend the results returned by
NetworkManager's
	"get networks" dbus interface (code in
	/usr/share/sugar/shell/hardware/nmclient.py) to include a number
of
	'statically configured' networks from
~olpc/.configuration/networks.
	Once nmclient's datastructure is extended in this way, the rest
of the
	UI and nmclient code should work 'as is' to display these
networks in
	the mesh view and allow connections to them.
	
	Another alternative is to simply hack some dbus-send commands
into
	rc.local to force NetworkManager to connect to the proper
network.
	
	Ricardo, Blake's asked for more information to help work on the
	NetworkManager side of this.  Is it just a cloaked AP, or is
there
	WEP/WPA/WPA2 involved, etc?
	 --scott


Scott,
Sounds like a great plan (or two)!

NYC friends:
Are the APs in NYC schools open?

--
RC

 

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