On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:35:07AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > I was wondering if actively disassociating might help with a smoother > transition. I was under this why we were doing this in the first place. > I frankly do not know, but if it does not help then I do agree with > your patch replacement. In many cases, it may end up harming more than helping.. At minimum, it takes some time to transmit the frame (and do the channel changes, if needed). Furthermore, this makes it more difficult for centrally managed networks to optimize roaming since we would be disassociating and associating as a new association instead of doing proper re-association. In such networks, the APs (or well, likely some sort of central manager) takes care of clearing the old association when the reassociation is being processed. In addition, this could potentially tunnel some frames through the new AP or at least make sure that bridge tables gets updated. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- 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
