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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:53:02 -0700
From:      "Kevin Gerry" <sfpoof@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Wireless NICs not obeying 'SSID' setting.
Message-ID:  <c027a39a0706282053i4b9cbdd8j421710d950cfd9ea@mail.gmail.com>

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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.



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