Question about AP hopping

[Aric D. Blumer]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:32 -0400, Aric D. Blumer wrote:
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> Depends on quite a few things.  If the firmware does the roaming, it's
> all up to the firmware.  If you've specified a particular BSSID, then
> the driver/card should hang onto that BSSID forever.  I'm not sure if
> hostap has driver-level roaming support, but if the firmware doesn't do
> roaming for you (it's true that many do) then you'll need a userspace
> tool to work it all out.
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> Dan
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Thanks for this info Dan.  It got me thinking about whether host_roaming
was required to be set, and looking at the code, I discovered that when
WPA is being used, the hostap_ioctl.c code turns roaming off [*].  Not
sure why this is the case.  I hacked the code to leave host_roaming
alone, and it now works.

* hostap_ioctl.c, prism2_ioctl_siwauth() function, in the
IW_AUTH_WPA_ENABLED case.