Re: Doing something about WPA-supplicant's roaming behaviour
Roy Marples
Thu Dec 19 15:50:45 2019
Hi Pavel
On 19/12/2019 15:00, Pavel Nikulin wrote:
I'm now trying to rally troops on WPA-supplicant's mail list
(hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to do something about its roaming
behaviour.
I would be very glad if anybody with sway in the Linux wireless
community come to my assistance on the list.
To those unaware, WPA-supplicant has an issue where it switches
between access points in the same network too eagerly. People were
repeatedly trying to bring it to the attention of core developers, and
patches addressing the issue went unnoticed by them.
From my own understanding, fixing it will be a substantial effort that
will involve a lot of testing in the field and such. Not many people
who do work on WPA-supplicant on the payroll of big companies are
daring enough to do that.
I'm subbed to that list as well.
However my knowledge of wpa_supplicant is strictly limited to how it interacts
with the OS driver and even then mainly the BSD side.
Hopefully someone else here can help out though.
Roy
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