Raising DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT

[Mitchell Augustin]

Thanks for the feedback. I prepared a patch and sent it to this
mailing list for consideration.

-Mitchell Augustin

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 11:55 -0500, Mitchell Augustin wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It is not uncommon now for very dense areas to have more than 200
> > access points. With the DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT set to 200, we have
> > observed that some devices in such areas can fail to detect even the
> > nearest APs reliably. This seems to be resolved when the value is
> > sufficiently high to list all APs in range.
> >
> > Has there been any discussion about raising this default value in
> > wpa_supplicant, given the increasing prevalence of AP-dense areas?
>
> Not that I know of, but FWIW the kernel has a (default but never
> changed) limit of 1000, so having a so far lower limit in wpa_s might
> really not make much sense.
>
> johannes



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