On 2018 Dec 07 (Fri) at 16:32:53 +0000 (+0000), Edd Barrett wrote:
:Hi,
:
:On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 07:18:37PM +0100, Gregor Best wrote:
:> I've built a little patch to security/wpa_supplicant that lets it listen to
:> changes in the associated network SSID (thanks to Ken's RTM_80211INFO) and
:> reassociate itself.
:>
:> This essentially means that now you can run `wpa_supplicant` in the
background
:> and configure e.g. eduroam like `ifconfig iwm0 join eduroam wpaakms 802.1x`
:> without having to manually kick wpa_supplicant by restarting it or running
:> `wpa_cli reassoc`.
:>
:> I'll be out of range of my usual eduroam access points until next week, so I
:> haven't tested this beyond "wpa_supplicant doesn't crash and it tries to
reassoc
:> if the NWID changes".
:
:Should wpa-supplicant transition between access points on the same SSID?
:At first I thought this was what this patch proposed, but I think I
:misinterpreted.
:
Yes, it needs to negotiate with every AP (BSSID) that it connects to,
even if it is the same ESSID.
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