Sorry for the anecdotal information. I've enabled debugging and if I see any relevant data, I'll pass it along.
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:49:49PM -0700, Base Pr1me wrote: > > Two questions: > > > > 1) In the heuristics for deciding on the AP, what is used to decide the > > best AP. > > Signal strength with which beacons from the AP were received is the > final differentiator. AP selection happens only when a scan ends (run > 'ifconfig iwm0 debug' and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see it live). > > Note that a switch happens if our current AP drops below a fixed threshold. > It does not happen if another AP shows up which is also above that > threshold, > because then we'd ping-pong between "good enough" APs all the time. > > > 2) Does the background scan eventually timeout completely requiring a > > reboot? > > No reboot is required. I don't know what happened on your system > to cause this. > > > Just attached to an AP from an ethernet connection and can't get it to > > change, period. So, need to know if I have to keep rebooting in to the > > future for testing. > > Sorry, but this descriptive statement does not help. > In order to fix a bug, I need *data* I can rely on. > > I'll be doing more testing myself today. I hope I'll be able to reproduce > the problem (I am hopeful because apparently several people have seen it). >
