Re: [PATCH] supplicant: Enable sharing of scan results.

[Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> When using multiple VIFs on the same physical radio,
> we can share scan results with sibling interfaces.
> This decreases time it takes to connect many VIFs.

Thanks! This looks reasonable. I did some cleanup and applied it.

Based on a quick test, this seemed to be able to connect over 100
station vifs using WPA2-Personal to a single AP without major problems.
Some resources are running out (just CPU?) that makes some of the 4-way
handshakes fail (timeout?), but after couple of tries, I got 116 of
124 stations connected. This is with all interfaces starting at the
same time; using some more latency there would likely make this quite a
bit more robust.

wpa_supplicant seemed to stop trying to reconnect in some cases, so this
probably triggered some bugs that need to be addressed. Anyway, manual
"wpa_cli -i<ifname> reassociate" on the missing eight vifs was able to
get all the 124 stations connected at the same time.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA