Hi,
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 07:18:37PM +0100, Gregor Best wrote:
> I've built a little patch to security/wpa_supplicant that lets it listen to
> changes in the associated network SSID (thanks to Ken's RTM_80211INFO) and
> reassociate itself.
>
> This essentially means that now you can run `wpa_supplicant` in the background
> and configure e.g. eduroam like `ifconfig iwm0 join eduroam wpaakms 802.1x`
> without having to manually kick wpa_supplicant by restarting it or running
> `wpa_cli reassoc`.
>
> I'll be out of range of my usual eduroam access points until next week, so I
> haven't tested this beyond "wpa_supplicant doesn't crash and it tries to reassoc
> if the NWID changes".
Should wpa-supplicant transition between access points on the same SSID?
At first I thought this was what this patch proposed, but I think I
misinterpreted.
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Best Regards
Edd Barrett
http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
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