Thanks Jouni. That makes sense. -----Original Message----- From: Jouni Malinen [mailto:j@xxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 2:18 PM To: Barigal, Shrishail <sbarigal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Instances of wpa_supplicant On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 05:31:26AM +0000, Barigal, Shrishail wrote: > I have a small query related to multiple instances of wpa_supplicant in Linux-x86. > I have put down the 2 cases of my execution and the results are different for both. I am basically concerned with the channel of the P2P-GO formed. > > What is the difference in running 1 wpa_supplicant with 2 different interface and running 2 wpa_supplicant with 1 interface each as mentioned below: When using a single wpa_supplicant process to control multiple interfaces, information about the operating channels of the other interfaces can be used to help in selecting a more suitable new operating channel to avoid less efficient multi channel concurrent cases. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
