Hi Chuck, On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 16:03 +0200, ext Chuck Crisler wrote: > How to you get the supplicant/linux wireless to perform active scans rather > than passive scans? Are active scans faster? We do active scans by default, unless specified otherwise in the regulatory database. The main difference between active and passive scans is that in active scans we send broadcast probe requests on the channel and with passive we don't. In passive scan we just listen to beacons. Usually the drivers stay for a certain period of time in each channel, and that normally doesn't change if you have active or passive scan. So there will be no improvement in the overall scan speed. Of course you could do some tweaks that might improve scanning performance in specific cases. -- Cheers, Luca. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
