SSID length handling

Gwendolyn Scharkowski bav7408 at studium.uni-hamburg.de
Thu Oct 6 06:03:09 PDT 2022


Hey there,

i was trying to test if the hostapd can handle a 32long number and  
string combination. Is it normal that i get the following error  
message? I thought the hostapd can handle 32 characters as an SSID. Or  
is the SSID anywhere else defined?

● hostapd.service - hostapd starten
      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hostapd.service; enabled;  
vendor preset: enabled)
      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-10-06 14:21:39  
CEST; 1s ago
     Process: 3725  
ExecStart=/home/station/hostapd-2.10/hostapd/hostapd  
/home/station/hostapd-2.10/hostapd/testhostapd.conf (code=exited,>
    Main PID: 3725 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
         CPU: 13ms

Okt 06 14:21:39 raspberrypi systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Scheduled  
restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Okt 06 14:21:39 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped hostapd starten.
Okt 06 14:21:39 raspberrypi systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Start request  
repeated too quickly.
Okt 06 14:21:39 raspberrypi systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with  
result 'exit-code'.
Okt 06 14:21:39 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start hostapd starten.


Thank you for you support.

Gwen




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