Scanning and probe requests

Ricardo Carrano carrano at laptop.org
Thu Mar 6 19:06:54 EST 2008


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 <dwmw2 at infradead.org> 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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