question about wpa and ifconfig scan

[Pietro Cerutti]

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sung.park wrote:
| Hello,

Hello,

| The client box has solid connection until I type
| Ifconfig ath0 scan
| After scan all of access point it lose connection from access point.  Is
| there any way to prohibit losing connection after scan?

I think this is the expected behavior unless your hw supports background
scanning (try ifconfig ath0 bgscan, if it gives "SIOCS80211: Invalid
argument" then it doesn't :-).

You can use
ifconfig ath0 list scan
to get the latest scan result without initiating a new scan.

Note that the 'scan' command given as non-root user is the same as the
list scan --> a normal user won't be able to cause the disconnection by
issuing a 'scan' command.

| Thanks

Hope this helps,


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