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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:23:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1505460197.31630.29.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7380aff-7e48-cfcb-b40d-530ac428a137@candelatech.com>

On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 15:57 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> What about two APs with ssid LEDE and open-auth, each serving DHCP,
> each connected to a switch that connects to a cable modem, etc.

Take a cluebat to the adminstrator?

It's really simple to disable DHCP on one of them, and if you properly
connect them to the same switch, everything works. I've done that in a
few places (not my own house because a single AP covers it well enough
for me, so ...).

> On initial connection to the network, the station does DHCP and gets
> a response, like normal.
> But, that response has a special message in it that says "you don't
> need to re-do dhcp if you roam here".
> User-space remembers this response for future roams...
> 
> After that, then you skip DHCP on roam to this SSID/auth network, so
> you have zero extra network overhead when roaming.

That will be so much harder to configure.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-15  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-14  8:39 ROAM/CONNECT event with PORT_AUTHORIZED Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 11:21 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-09-14 11:44   ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 18:37     ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:17       ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:34         ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:38           ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 20:05             ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 20:08               ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 20:26                 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 20:29                   ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 20:35                     ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 20:47                       ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 21:35                         ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 22:15                           ` Ben Greear
2017-09-14 22:42                             ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 22:57                               ` Ben Greear
2017-09-15  7:23                                 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-09-15  7:20                         ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:39           ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 18:27 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 18:36   ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:08     ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:22       ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:37         ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-14 19:41           ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:42             ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-14 19:54             ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15  7:19               ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 12:50                 ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 13:29                   ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 13:50                     ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 14:20                       ` Johannes Berg
2017-09-15 14:27                         ` Denis Kenzior
2017-09-15 14:52                           ` Johannes Berg

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