wpa_supplicant + wpa_gui have troubles when many APs have the same name

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Tue Nov 22 02:05:15 UTC 2016


On 11/21/2016 18:01, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it trying to send out probe requests to ALL of those devices for some reason?
>
> How many APs is too many? Maybe I can try duplicating it.

I didn't debug it. But I observed that the problem occurred in several 
public places, like airports, conference halls, hotels which attempt to 
"cover" the space with APs with the same name. Sometimes there were 
10-20 APs in sight.

Yuri



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