> -----Original Message----- > From: Hostap [mailto:hostap-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Antonio Quartulli > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 15:54 > To: night decoder; hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Running hostapd and wpa_supplicant on the same interface > > > > On 21/01/16 21:14, night decoder wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Is that possible to run wpa_supplicant while hostapd is running on the same > interface? > > > > My device will need too act as AP firstly, then after being configured by a > client which connected to it's AP it could connect to another AP which it was > supplied. Problem is when in AP mode, can I scan the SSID with > wap_supplicant without leaving hostapd first? Can i do it seamlessly? > > In order to scan you can also use iw or nl80211 to perform a scan by using the > AP interface. There is no need to kill hostapd and use wpa_supplicant in this > case. This is not always possible when the AP interface is already beaconing. For this to work the driver needs to report NL80211_FEATURE_AP_SCAN, and you need to specify 'ap-force' in the iw scan command. Regards, Ilan. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
