From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 199851 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:52:12 -0400 Message-ID: <44A5FF79.7040205@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:52:09 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060531 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: xwlan 2.14 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/29/06 02:47 pm, Christian Langanke thus wrote : > Michael Warmuth wrote: >> >> But I really think that this is the correct >> sequence: Because it is possible to start a process then which strikes >> when the interface is fully configured by XWLAN. But it's a bit hard to >> code to step back in time when xwlan.cmd is started after configuring >> the interface. ;-) > I doubt that the xwlan script should be run before the WLAN interface > is configured. The purpose of the script is to run additional commands > depending on the _configured_ WLAN interface, for this the WLAN > interface must already be configured. The only thing that I could > think of is to redesign the script interface and add two more events. > SO it would not only be > > CONNECT (run after WLAN is configured) > DISCONNECT (run before WLAN is unconfigured) > > but as well > > CONNECTPENDING (run before WLAN is configured) > DISCONECTCOMPLETED (run after WLAN is unconfigured) > > I would not so so before there is a serious used case for that, > because I would not want to make the whole thing too complex. > This is essentially what I was getting at with my idea of an option toggle. The additional variables would handle this similarly. That said, I agree; the point, after all, is to make XWLAN as monolithic as possible, so that script actions should be possible from within the app, and not necessary outside of it. The simpler, the better. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users International www.novell.com/linux/truth Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------