Directed/Unicast probe to a specific BSSID

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Fri Nov 19 18:43:55 EST 2010


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:04:03PM -0600, alfred steele wrote:
> Is thid configuration posible using wpa supplicant. If the BSSID is
> known along with  the SSID, Is there a configuration which tells the
> wpa supplicant and/or the driver to be able to send a directed probe
> instead of sending a probe request to all "FF"s.

No, this is not supported.

> Or do i have to patch wpa supplicant to achieve this?

Not only wpa_supplicant, but you may need to implement support for that
in the driver and kernel interface for that matter..

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