On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > On 3 August 2010 23:56, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: >> Just now I've set up three access points with the same essid; a NetComm >> NB600W and two WRT54G running OpenWrt. >> >> XO-1.5 and XO-1 development build os304 for release 10.1.2 shows a >> single icon in the Neighbourhood View, and clicking on it chooses one of >> the access points. >> >> XO-1 stable build os802 for release 8.2.1 shows the same thing. >> >> "iwlist eth0 scan" shows three separate access points with different >> address but same essid. They are on different channels. > > This is indeed the way to achieve what was asked for.
Correct. > But be careful - > not too long ago, someone from Uruguay (on de...@lists.laptop.org) > investigated a setup like this and found that the XO's behaviour in > picking the "best" access point (and changing once the signal got to > weak) was quite sub-standard. That is true -- with build 8.2.1 sometimes the XO "switches" from one AP to another needlessly. This does not happen in newer builds. We diagnosed the problem down to wpa_supplicant deciding to switch AP. In the same investigation we saw that the libertas driver was not resetting tx failure count periodically -- this may be influencing wpa_supplicant. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
