From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 03:53:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1835416A421 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:53:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfpoof@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFE813C44C for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfpoof@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so43934wxd for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:53:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=XMoi+wsYLaDsUQgT3/nOqij8x9XbbTXzBRS/lj12yLUZOwWEQpPVNugw/mb2t4jizadAY5E97RkxTl/IuZVGPtKeoc5PjeJxzKx/1e5u4YmKGxMgn7nY2oH6glopDEQ4jEUd2YcS4Mr4miRF+yrmAVpkYOExHve4qqTQKB/UPrg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Wa703ZoC2+sw72YrQLV6PFNNFqy9YzeZy6YegF0CUANX0j1slRfgXiDGt9tnnHBmpAhmrYS8291J/FD2dF3YUlyoryP0Ye2+U37HoJCJgjlq/91c0DWe7IQLPfSMaIhR65SWUdUFR4ZqcqLd1k9iYQmxH4akC/NQlcC2ZrHt8tc= Received: by 10.90.68.15 with SMTP id q15mr2726406aga.1183089182389; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.70.9 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:53:02 -0700 From: "Kevin Gerry" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Wireless NICs not obeying 'SSID' setting. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:53:03 -0000 I've noticed that in a recent patch that when you set a NIC with ifconfig ath0 ssid "This One" that it won't always honor that and jump on the strongest one. Example: 3 WAPs: SSIDs WAP1, WAP2, WAP3 I have set ath0's ssid to "WAP2" and ral0's ssid to "WAP3". They both will honor the ssid setting for the first connection. However, after a few hours/etc the drivers both associate with WAP1. The settings to require the specific SSID are in /etc/start_if.ral0/start_if.ath0. There aren't any conflicting directives to force it to go blank and select a random AP.