Forced Handoff

falbinali at yahoo.com falbinali at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 20 10:34:47 EST 2001


The APs has the same ESSID... There is an ap option
for the iwconfig command, will that do the job. It
tries binding to the specified AP yet  it says that if
the quality of the link goes down, it will revert to
auto mode. What does that mean?!!

Regards,
falbinali

--- "LEE, Yui-wah (Clement)"
<leecy at dnrc.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> Are the two APs configured with different ESSIDs? 
> If so, you can use
> the command
> 
>   # iwconfig <dev> essid <essid>
> 
> to force the station to associate with one
> particular AP and off from
> the other.
> 
> --
> Clement
> 
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 falbinali at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I need your help. I have 2 access points and a
> > Laptop with orinoco_cs driver. The card binds to
> the
> > access point with the strongest S/N, is it
> possible to
> > force a handoff (maybe reseting the card with a
> > different script). Please if anyone has an idea on
> how
> > to accomplish that, let me know.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > falbinali
> >
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