Roaming functionality with wpasupplicant (was: [pkg-wpa-devel] cleaning up our suggested modes of use)

[Kel Modderman]

Apologies, I do not know where some of my emails are going to, either it is a 
severe case of PEBCAK (as I've recently changed email clients) or my ISP's 
account is just too lame.

On Thursday 03 August 2006 17:59, Marc Haber wrote:
>
> > I like Reinhard's idea of providing a framework for allowing such a
> > plugin interface to provide "roaming logic". However, at this point in
> > time, I do not consider logic provided outside of wpa_supplicant in any
> > way superior, or even required. I simply find guessing the network, when
> > it is already known, unnecessary.
>
> It might be necessary when one roams between two dumbly-configured
> networks, probably named "WLAN" or "NETG**R".

The SSID is not used as an identification value, only the id_str value is 
(which is a simple sting). Therefore, when properly setup, stupid characters 
in an ssid will not interfere.

I mentioned SSID before only as an example of what the supplicant already 
knows about the network.

Thanks, Kel.