Forced Handoff

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:34:47PM -0800, falbinali at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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?!!

Quick question, why do you want to associate with a particular AP? If
they're not connected to the same network, why do they have the same ESSID?
If they are connected to the same network, then it doesn't matter which one
you connect to?

HTH,

> --- "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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