Ticket #4153 (new defect)

Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 2 weeks ago

connect to linklocal instead of schoolmesh

Reported by: yani Owned by: joe
Priority: high Milestone: 8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component: network manager Version:
Keywords: 8.2.0:? Cc: jg, kimquirk, dcbw, mstone, wad, mbletsas, joe, Gregorio
Action Needed: test in build Verified: yes
Blocked By: Blocking:

Description

It happens very often that you click on channel 1 to connect to schoolserver, but instead it connects to link local on channel one.

You have an 169.254.x.x ip, and the resolv.conf is empty

612 Q2C27m

Attachments

messages (68.1 kB) - added by yani 11 months ago.

Change History

Changed 11 months ago by yani

Changed 11 months ago by jg

  • milestone changed from Never Assigned to First Deployment, V1.0

Changed 11 months ago by kimquirk

  • cc jg, kimquirk added
  • priority changed from normal to high

Changed 10 months ago by kimquirk

  • keywords killjoy? added

Here is a use case to think about: a number of students near a school server open their laptops and will automatically connect to the school server mesh. If they want to limit their networking to the classroom or a smaller group, they could force a local-link mesh (any of 3 channels).

But today, if their school server is using all 3 mesh channels, then when they click on 'Mesh X', they will get the school server, not the local link. Seems like they should be able to choose between those two options.

Most likely this should be documented in the release note for XM; and moved out to a later release -- but it might be good for someone to evaluate the work effort needed.

Changed 6 months ago by wad

  • cc dcbw added
  • keywords WLAN, school server added; killjoy? removed
  • verified set

This was reported more recently as #5963, which has been closed as a duplicate of this ticket.

Changed 6 months ago by Blaketh

  • keywords release? added

Changed 7 weeks ago by gregorio

  • cc mstone, wad, mbletsas, joe, Gregorio added
  • keywords 8.2.0:? added; WLAN, school server release? removed
  • next_action set to test in build

Is this reproducible in joyride? (I suspect that it will be, but we'd better check.)

Changed 7 weeks ago by joe

  • owner changed from dcbw to Charlie

Charlie,

When you have a chance to test a Joyride in the school server environment, please try to retest this one.

Joe

Changed 2 weeks ago by Charlie

  • owner changed from Charlie to joe
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