- Very similar to configuration of IPv4 networks.
- Supports 'auto', 'dhcp', 'manual' and 'ignored' modes as supported by
network manager. 'shared' mode is not yet implemented by network
manager.
Select the frequency band (2.4 GHz vs. 5 GHz) is a prerequisite for
selecting the channel. Channel selection is useful primarily as follow:
- Restrict to a particular access point when multiple access points use
the same SSID (AP name) but are available on different frequencies.
- Configure for a particular ad-hoc mesh network.
- Setup multiple access points from a single FreedomBox on multiple
channels to maximize the throughput and number of simultaneous
clients.
Ability to specify a particular BSSID will help associate with a
particular access point when multiple access points use the same
SSID (AP name). This is also makes it slightly harder to trick clients
into connection to a malicious device. Also configuring BATMAN-adv
seems to require setting a particular BSSID.
Disabled IPv4 method allows not configuring IPv4 entirely on network
interfaces as required in some cases.
Also, make sure to internationalize all the choices form values in
network module. There were missed before.
After batman-adv kernel driver takes over the Wi-Fi network interface
and provides a bat0 interface, this interface shows up as device type
'batadv'. This type is not recognized by network manager is dealt with
as a generic device. Configuring this device for IPv4/IPv6 in
auto/shared mode etc. works fine. So, add the ability to configure
generic interfaces.
Setting IP address on a shared connection can be usefull. This tells
Network Manager to pick the provided network range (inferred from
IP/netmask) instead of something in 10.42.x.x. This can be used to give
predicatable IPs, static IPs and to make large static
reservations (instead of the default 8).
- Make connection adding/editing forms inherit from base.
- Make the forms responsible for extracting cleaned data.
- Use dictionaries for passing around settings values while
adding/editing connections.
* fixed IP configuration
* set up a new ipv4settings object to avoid the need of reseting all the values
* extended Static IP configuration:
* allow configuration of netmask (optional)
* allow configuration of Gateway (optional)
* allow configuartion of two DNS Servers (optional)
* extend DHCP configuration:
* allow configuration of user specific DNS Server
* DHCP provided DNS Servers will be ignored in that case
Python 3.2.x is deprecated, so I thought it would be
good to get tests running on some newer pythons. I've
switched from the python3-gi package to using 'pgi' from
pypi, because the apt-installed python3-gi was having trouble
importing.
pgi required python 3.3+ (see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pgi),
so I've removed python 3.2 from the test matrix. Let me know if
we're using python 3.2 anywhere, but as far as I know plinth is
run on python 3.4.3 with debian sid on the freedombox image.
Specify the version of a library before importing it using GObject
introspection. Mainly to avoid warnings with recent version of
pygobject. Closes#247.
- Retrieve password using connection.get_secrets() instead of
settings_pppoe.get_password().
- Make sure IPv4 settings are not accessed during PPPoE editing.
- Javascript was missing for the template altogether. Added one similar
to create case.
- Minor refactoring to existing javascript.
- Consistent styling for display label and field id.
* Added a new choice to main selectbox for adding Network Connections (network.py)
* Added a new form which asks for name, interface, firewall zone, username and password (forms.py, urls.py)
* Added new helper functions to create PPPoE based connection object (network.py)
- Fetch network interfaces list at the time of form creation instead of
during definition.
- Add help text to interfaces list choice field.
- Don't write an explict check for requiring interface
selection. required=True, which is default, takes care of that.
- Internationalize the empty selection text.
- Update the empty selection text.
- Re-order interface parameter in the same order of priority/appearance.
- Make network-manager package get installed when accessing the index page of
networks. Also freedombox-setup shold actually pull network-manager package
as dependency and use it for configuring the initial networks.
- Remove the /connect page and re-use the /add_wifi page for that purpose.
- Fix add connection page titles.
- Handle the case when network-manager returned empty string for SSID.
- Don't explictly URL encode the Wi-Fi SSID when adding a new Wi-Fi network.
Django automatically handles this in 'url' tag and decodes before url
routing. Relax the regex that matches SSID as part of the URL to handle all
possible SSIDs.
