Specifying BSSID in station connect?

Specifying BSSID in station connect?

[Bruce A. Johnson]

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Has any consideration been given to permitting the specification of a 
particular BSSID in the /station <wlan> connect/ command? I initially 
wrote my project to work with WPA supplicant, and this was a feature 
that my testing guy liked. I seem some utility in being able to lock 
onto a specific access point.

Thanks!

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Bruce A. Johnson
Chantilly, VA
USA
OpenPGP key ID: 296D1CD6F2B84CAB https://keys.openpgp.org/


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Re: Specifying BSSID in station connect?

[Denis Kenzior]

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Hi Bruce,

On 1/17/22 09:39, Bruce A. Johnson wrote:
> Has any consideration been given to permitting the specification of a particular 
> BSSID in the /station <wlan> connect/ command? I initially wrote my project to 
> work with WPA supplicant, and this was a feature that my testing guy liked. I 
> seem some utility in being able to lock onto a specific access point.

This (and more) is already possible using the StationDebug interface.  Note that 
this interface is only available when iwd is started in developer mode, see 'iwd 
--help' for the right incantation.

Our python based auto tests use this functionality quite a bit.  We haven't had 
a need to support this API in iwctl.  Should be pretty easily doable if someone 
needs this.

Regards,
-Denis