select accesspoint with use of bssid
wlan
wlan
Sun Jan 19 21:05:34 PST 2003
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 03:23, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:18:00AM +0000, wlan wrote:
> > "When the quality of the connection goes too low, the driver may
> > revert back to automatic mode (the card finds the best Access Point in
> > range)"
> >
> > it is possible to turn off this feature and force the driver to connect
> > ONLY to the preselected AP?
>
> Do you mean that the card should associate only to the selected AP, even
> if that would mean losing connection?
Yes, maybe it is not a really common requirement but could be useful in
some situations, for example: avoiding fake Aps for "stealing" your
connection, or to force to register to an AP that maybe signal is weaker
but it has less clients.
I guest should not be very difficult to implement if you think it is
worth.
Thanks Jouni for you great work!
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