On 05/23/11 09:28, Tim Smith wrote:
On Monday 23 May 2011 16:36:00 Tim wrote: Not really. This is SSID, not BSSID (BSSID is usually the MAC of the AP). When you scan, you not only listen for beacons, but you (should) send probe requests. If you put an SSID into your probe request, you will get a response only from a BSS with a matching SSID, so you broadcast saying "network named 'MyHouseNetwork' please respond" at which point you get the response from the real BSS which has the real SSID in it and not the bogus one that went in the beacons.
Well, I have placed wpa_supplicant in full debug verbosity output mode, and it's probe/scan does not seem to be aimed at just my router. In fact it gets usually 3 to 5 responses from which it then selects my AP. The wpa_supplicant.conf has the SSID and the BSSID in the configuration. So, how come the probe/scan gets more than one response?