wpa_supplicant with "ap_scan=1"

[Paresh Sawant]

As per the description of "ap_scan=1" #2 should be possible without
"CONFIG_IEEE80211R=y". I don't intend to use "CONFIG_IEEE80211R=y".

Thanks
- Paresh

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Pujeri, Prabhakar<c_ppujer at qualcomm.com> wrote:
> 1. yes it has capability to search AP with SSID and security setting and it try to associate with that
>
> 2. yes if you configured in .config file while building wpa_supplicant "CONFIG_IEEE80211R=y"
> 3. no idea
>
>
> -prabhakar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hostap-bounces at lists.shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-bounces at lists.shmoo.com] On Behalf Of Paresh Sawant
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 11:42 AM
> To: hostap at lists.shmoo.com
> Subject: wpa_supplicant with "ap_scan=1"
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running wpa_supplicant (0.5.11) on Linux. Following is my configuration -
>
> ap_scan=1
> network={
> ? ? ? ?ssid="example"
> ? ? ? ?proto=RSN
> ? ? ? ?key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> ? ? ? ?pairwise=CCMP
> ? ? ? ?group=CCMP
> ? ? ? ?psk="my example psk"
> }
>
>
> I would like to know -
>
> 1. Is it possible that the wpa_supplicant would perform the scanning
> and do the BSS selection using the given network block ?
> 2. If there are more than one access points having configuration
> similar to given network block, would wpa_supplicant to make
> connection to an access point with better signal strength? In short,
> would wpa_supplicant be able to roam?
> 3. In case of ap_scan=1, how frequently the scan operation is performed?
>
>
> Thanks
> - Paresh
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