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belle.shi@xxxxxx writes:

> there is one question: the scan have two mode:active or passive,but
> when i run the wpa_gui, there is only scan button

Passive scan is so slow that we want to use active scan always when
possible. No need to confuse users about this, so one scan button is
enough.

> i think the active scan is to send Probe Request frame, and the
> passive scan to receive the beacon frame, is it right?

Correct.

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Kalle Valo
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