Re: Scanning and probe requests

2008-03-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:09 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> It may be possible that NetworkManager is triggering the scannings
> (any other possibility?). Anyway, why 4 scan commands and how this
> becomes 2 probe requests? Any ideas?

We send multiple scan commands to the firmware for each scan command
from userspace because the buffer for scan results is limited in size --
so we scan only four channels at a time.

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Re: Scanning and probe requests

2008-03-06 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Thanks, David. This accounts for part of the question. Any idea on how this
translates to 2 probe requests in the air?

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:16 AM, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:09 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> > It may be possible that NetworkManager is triggering the scannings
> > (any other possibility?). Anyway, why 4 scan commands and how this
> > becomes 2 probe requests? Any ideas?
>
> We send multiple scan commands to the firmware for each scan command
> from userspace because the buffer for scan results is limited in size --
> so we scan only four channels at a time.
>
> --
> dwmw2
>
>
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