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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>]

David Brown wrote:
> Some of the features include:
> 1) maintaining a minimum connectivity quality
> wireless-bash when the quality of the connection drops below a
> particular percent (given by /proc/net/wireless) it will go searching
> for another essid to connect to.
> 2) precedence between multiple essids you may encounter
> wireless-bash will go through a user specified list in order looking
> for the first essid to connect to, so if the user perfers a connection
> to a particular essid put that essid ahead of everything else in the
> list.
> 3) each essid has it's own unique connection style currently supported are:
>     a) wep
>     b) open
> 4) post or pre connection script to connect to the essid given
> wireless-bash will run specified pre and post connection scripts (this
> is good for vpn clients and such)
> 5) both a running daemon and a command line utility
> you can choose not to run the daemon at all (negating features 1 and
> 2) and simply run the commandline utility to connect to the essid.
>   

Cool stuff. Reminds me that I wanted to do a spell for /etc/net project
for a long time:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/etcnet/. In their description I don't see
a daemon involved, so wireless roaming is probably not supported.

Sergey.