* roaming support for d80211 stack
@ 2006-09-06 0:42 Mohamed Abbas
2006-09-07 6:55 ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-07 16:00 ` Jouni Malinen
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From: Mohamed Abbas @ 2006-09-06 0:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Hi
Are there any one working on roaming support for d80211 stack?
Thanks
Mohamed
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* Re: roaming support for d80211 stack
2006-09-06 0:42 roaming support for d80211 stack Mohamed Abbas
@ 2006-09-07 6:55 ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-07 16:00 ` Jouni Malinen
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2006-09-07 6:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mohamed Abbas; +Cc: netdev, Jouni Malinen
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 17:42 -0700, Mohamed Abbas wrote:
> Are there any one working on roaming support for d80211 stack?
I'm not aware of anyone working on it, but I used to think there was
some support. I guess that isn't true then if you need to ask that
question :)
johannes
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* Re: roaming support for d80211 stack
2006-09-06 0:42 roaming support for d80211 stack Mohamed Abbas
2006-09-07 6:55 ` Johannes Berg
@ 2006-09-07 16:00 ` Jouni Malinen
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From: Jouni Malinen @ 2006-09-07 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mohamed Abbas; +Cc: netdev
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:42:16PM -0700, Mohamed Abbas wrote:
> Are there any one working on roaming support for d80211 stack?
I'm not actively working on this at the moment, but I do have plans on
doing something on this area. The current implementation uses
wpa_supplicant to take care of the roaming for both cases of
ieee80211_sta.c being used (i.e., management frames processed in kernel)
and user-space MLME (management frames in user space). The trigger for
roaming is certainly not optimal; roaming process is started only after
losing connection, but roaming itself should work.
I will be most likely working with the user space MLME code in
wpa_supplicant, i.e., there won't be much changes in the d80211 stack
side. The changes there would more likely be in the area of providing
some generic operations to help scanning and reporting current signal
strength (etc.) to use space. The main changes in roaming logic would be
wpa_supplicant.
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