wpa_supplicant and automatic roaming.

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Wed Oct 24 16:02:57 EDT 2012


On 10/23/2012 10:37 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:38:13PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> Is supplicant supposed to automatically do periodic scans and
>> find better APs, or is that something that outside programs
>> have to initiate?
>
> If you enable the bgscan functionality (e.g., with
> bgscan="simple:30:-45:300" in the network block), yes. Otherwise, no.


Is there any documentation for this feature?  I can't find any
in this link, at least:

http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=blob_plain;f=wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf


Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com



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