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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:13:03 +0800
From: Yue Wu <vanopen@gmail.com>
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Organization: China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
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Subject: Why ssid is a required parameter for wpa_supplicant?
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Hi, list,

As the title, I like to use bssid to specify the wireless networking I
want to connect, so if ssid changed, I don't need to change the
configure file. Just curious why ssid is a required parameter, it
would be nice if only one of ssid and bssid is required instead.

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Regards,
Yue Wu

Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University
No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China