Force Connection to Single Specified AP When Multiple Exist in the Same Area with Same SSID

Johannes Berg johannes
Wed Apr 6 00:12:48 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:32 -0600, Curtis Larsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using  wpa_supplicant 0.7.1, ubuntu 10.04, Atheros AR9280.
> 
> My .conf file currently looks like this:
> 
> network={
>         ssid="WIFI"
>         proto=WPA2
>         key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>         pairwise=CCMP
>         group=CCMP
>         eap=PEAP
>         identity="myusername"
>         password="mypassword"
>         phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
>         priority=1
> }
> 
> 
> What do I have to do to force my connection to *only* connect to a
> certain AP when 10 in the same area are visible to the client with the
> same SSID (many on the same channel).  Let me know.

# bssid: BSSID (optional); if set, this network block is used only when
#       associating with the AP using the configured BSSID


johannes




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