How to clear scan cache.

[Raghavendra. S]

Hi,

 In my case, I will enable wpa supplicant and in wpa_cli I issue
"SCAN" command. Then I will sleep for 5-7 seconds. Later I will issue
"SCAN_RESULT" command to get scan result.

Here I have few  doubts?

1. what is the optimal value for this sleep?

2. In  wpa_ctrl_request(ctrl_conn, "SCAN_RESULTS",
                     os_strlen("SCAN_RESULTS"), scanbuf, &len, NULL);

  Currently in wpa_cli size of "scanbuf" is defined as char array of
2048 bytes. So it will hardly accomodate scan result for 15-16 APs.

 Can I increase this size from 2048 to higher value? say 3072, so that
it can hold 24-25 scanned AP information?

3. I have following config file for scan

# cat /tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf.tmp
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1

network={
                bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00
                key_mgmt=NONE
}

This will never connect to any AP, but will remain in scan state. Is
there any issue in using this kind of configuration?


-Raghu.


On 1/10/08, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:42 +0530, Raghavendra. S wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >  Can any body tell me how to clear scan cache?
>
> Any particular reason you'd want to do this?  Scan results should be
> expired fairly quickly anyway, like a matter of seconds.  The drivers
> themselves may cache scan results for up to 15 seconds.
>
> Dan
>
>
>


-- 
Regards & Thanks
Raghavendra. S