How to handle multiple SSIDs with the same BSS
Jouni Malinen
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Wed Dec 23 11:14:00 PST 2009
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:48:11AM -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> BSS 00:1a:a1:53:50:a0 (on wlan0)
> SSID: Private
> BSS 00:1a:a1:53:50:a0 (on wlan0)
> SSID: Public
> When using the wpa_supplicant D-Bus interface, every BSS can only be
> listed once and so we either see "Private" or "Public", but never
> actually both of them. How should this be handled.
I wasn't aware that there is this kind of limitation in the D-Bus
interface. It is clearly broken if it cannot include both of those
networks.
> Also looking into the register_bss callbacks, you only get the BSS
> address and not the set of IE.
I don't know how this mechanism is supposed to be used, but there needs
to be a way for fetching more information about the BSS and BSSID by
itself is not a sufficient key for identifying which BSS is being
queried for (need to have BSSID,SSID pair or some other internally
generated identifier which can be guaranteed to be unique).
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