On 05/23/11 12:22, Tim Smith wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2011 17:50:50 JD wrote: >> On 05/23/11 09:28, Tim Smith wrote: >>> On Monday 23 May 2011 16:36:00 Tim wrote: >>> Not really. This is SSID, not BSSID (BSSID is usually the MAC of the AP). >>> When you scan, you not only listen for beacons, but you (should) send >>> probe requests. If you put an SSID into your probe request, you will get >>> a response only from a BSS with a matching SSID, so you broadcast saying >>> "network named 'MyHouseNetwork' please respond" at which point you get >>> the response from the real BSS which has the real SSID in it and not the >>> bogus one that went in the beacons. >> Well, I have placed wpa_supplicant in full debug verbosity >> output mode, and it's probe/scan does not seem to be aimed >> at just my router. In fact it gets usually 3 to 5 responses >> from which it then selects my AP. >> The wpa_supplicant.conf has the SSID and the BSSID in the >> configuration. So, how come the probe/scan gets more than >> one response? > > Well, note I said "If" :-) > > If you do not place ANY SSID into the probe request, then all networks will > respond. Depending on the configuration of a multi-SSID AP you may see more > than one probe response from the same MAC address in this case. Or not. That > may be up to the guy who runs the network(s) or it may be a hard-coded > behaviour of the APs being used. > > See the scan_ssid parameter for wpa_supplicant for how to change > wpa_supplicant's behaviour in this respect. > You did not show the part where I said that my router's BSSID and the nets SSID are in wpa_supplicant.conf. So, I am asking how come the wpa_supplicant is not aiming it's probe directly at that BSSID and SSID coded in the config file? It seems to me that it should do that. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
