On 20/09/15 19:06, Brandon Vincent wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Xen <list@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
It is just regular practice for a wifi device to support this. It is basically just ridiculous (once again) that NetworkManager doesn't. No need to beat around the bush about it. There is no other solution that really suffices. I'll just leave it at this. I couldn't tell if this discussion was about switching SSIDs or BSSIDs based on signal strength.
Hi I think we got knocked off course. We began the thread but don't understand where it has gone..
I studied and worked at a university campus with an enrollment of 60,000 people occupying a little less than a single square mile. I couldn't even start to estimate the number of access points in place to support such density. There has to be thousands of enterprise grade access points in place. Some buildings have an access point every ten to fifteen feet. Each access point runs three SSIDs which are spanned over the entire campus. I haven't dug into the code of wpa_supplicant or NetworkManager, but from my experience NetworkManager would associate with a single BSSID and wait for the signal to become unusable before disconnecting and establishing a connection with a closer and stronger BSSID.
This means that I would connect to one of the SSIDs, move slightly down the hall and NetworkManager would continue to try to use the original BSSID (albeit having virtually no usable signal). NetworkManager would become so confused it required a restart. This happened on about six to seven GNU/Linux distributions.
Brandon Vincent I think the conclusion is that we can't roam on Linux. We have a workaround so just need help setting it up. It's exactly the latter. We need a one tap button that restarts the network. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org