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> No, wpa_supplicant shouldn't have to do that, mac80211 should 
> do that automatically once a new BSSID comes in. The problem 
> seems to be between
> mac80211 and your AP in that mac80211 associates to another 
> AP and then tries the target one but the target one doesn't 
> like that so we should at least try to disassociate from the 
> previous one first.
> 
> 
> mac80211 should be responsible.
> 
> I tend to think that is rather questionable behaviour, how 
> can the second AP know that you're still in range to the 
> first and can even disassociate from that one?
> 

I have edited a trace/comment PDF file. I hope that will explain what I
seen.

It shows my major concerns:
- Driver initially authenticate with wrong AP
- Driver authenticating with new AP while having a valid association with
and other AP.

/Lars

Attachment: dual authenications.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


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