Forced Handoff

[falbinali at yahoo.com]

Well I am trying to assign each AP a certain traffic
class. Something like traffic shaping.

Regards,
  falbinali
--- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org> wrote:
> 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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