[PATCH] Avoid unnecessary triggering of rescans

Jouni Malinen j
Fri Mar 7 00:49:24 PST 2008


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:05:23AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:

> But in some situations that may result in unexpected switching between two APs 
> all the time (if you sit in the middle of two APs and e.g. NetworkManager 
> triggering a scan every two minutes), right?

I would assume that that would be possible with the current
implementation. The proper fix for this would be to add some
hysteresis to the AP selection to prevent constant changes if there is
no noticeable differences between the APs, not to disable this feature
completely.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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