Roaming problems
Lars Ericsson
Lars_Ericsson
Wed Apr 23 10:12:14 PDT 2008
> > Currently this is what happens most of the time, when all
> ioclts had
> > been issued from the driver, it drops current
> > authentication/association atempts and start with the new
> one. Most of the times that works fine.
> >
> > But sometimes, when for any reason the 3 ioctls get delayed, the
> > driver may success to associate with the old BSSID (since that is
> > still valid in the driver). Then when all 3 ioctls has been
> received,
> > including the new BSSID, the driver re-starts the
> > authentication/association sequence with the new BSSID.
> >
> > The problem is that the STA already have a valid
> association with the
> > first AP. In this case the new BSSID silently ignores any
> > authentication/association attempts. My believe is that it
> knows that
> > the STA already have a valid association.
>
> Uh huh. Aren't we disassociating when we change to a new bssid?
>
I think the best way would be check the trace I attached in the first post.
/LaE
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