On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:47 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > Should setting a BSSID trigger a disconnection event from the driver? > Obviously a disconnect event shouldn't be triggered if the BSSID being > set is the same BSSID the card is already associated with. Or does that > mean "reassociate unconditionally" ? IMHO (answering your rephrased question with "always") it should unless the BSSIDs are really identical. After all, one disassociates from one BSS before associating to the other. > The libertas driver currently does this; it sometimes confuses > wpa_supplicant and is arguably wrong behavior because drivers don't > issue disconnection events when auto-roaming from BSSID to BSSID in the > same ESS. Is there a way to trigger such events when auto-roaming? :) > Thoughts? I guess I vote for not sending disconnect events if that > BSSID has the same capabilities and the same SSID as the current > association BSS. I think that just makes things unnecessarily complex -- we'd have to try to see if two things are really the same ESS in the driver/stack/... johannes
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