changing the channel without bringing down hostapd .

[Janusz Dziedzic]

On 3 February 2016 at 07:11, Nagaraj Nayak <nagarajn at cdot.in> wrote:
> Hi Janusz ,
>
>
> Thanks for the reply
>
>
> I looked into the hostapd_cli ,
> chan_switch only gives the following help .
> usage: <cs_count> <freq> [sec_channel_offset=] [center_freq1=]
> [center_freq2=] [bandwidth=] [blocktx] [ht|vht]
>
> I further found out that cs_count stands ,switch channel after number of
> beacon frames
>
> and freq should be channel number
>
>
> For example if would want change the channel from  1 to 11 , it tried out
> the following command
>
>> chan_switch 500 11
> FAIL
>> chan_switch 50 11
> FAIL
>> chan_switch 25 11
> FAIL
>
> please let me know if i am doing something wrong or please point out if any
> correct examples are there (on the net).
>
You need frequency not channel_no
eg.
chan_switch 5 2462

BR
Janusz
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>
> Regards
> Nagaraj
>
> i
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> On Tuesday 02 February 2016 01:59 PM, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
>>
>> On 2 February 2016 at 07:34, Nagaraj Nayak <nagarajn at cdot.in> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I have bee testing with hostapd2.4 and hostapd2.5
>>> In both version which I give SIGHUP command only the ssid and password
>>> changes are getting effected ,
>>> But the channel configured doesn't seem to change ,
>>> Is there any method by which the channel can be changed without bringing
>>> down the hostapd .
>>>
>> >From hostapd_cli you can run chan_switch.
>>
>> BR
>> Janusz
>>
>>> Regards
>>> Nagaraj
>>>
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