Re: How to Autoconnect Two WiFi Cards?

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

Hi Fabian,

> 
> I’m starting to think that it might be easier to add a feature to iwd that does what I want :). But I’m still a bit lost in the source code.

Can you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish?

Do you want iwd to connect to two SSIDs?  Two different BSSes within the same 
SSID?  Something else?

I do like the idea of having iwd support multiple wifi cards out of the box. 
Right now we do so, but it isn't terribly useful, e.g. both phys will happily 
connect to the same SSID on the same frequency.

Having the ability for iwd to natively support connecting to multiple APs with 
multiple cards would be nice.  Then we can use something like mptcp to run 
multiple flows for redundancy / throughput.  Shouldn't be all that hard to have 
something working, mostly a matter of updating autoconnect logic to take 
multi-phy scenario into account.

Obligatory: patches are always welcome :)

> 
> Yes, WiFi 7 is certainly interesting. You can already buy WiFi-7-capable hardware now. UniFi promises MLO support to be available in February with a firmware update for example.

MLO only works to the same AP though, just different band.  You mentioned using 
a different SSID earlier?

Regards,
-Denis