[Cerowrt-devel] treating 2.4ghz as -legacy?

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Wed Dec 18 00:05:04 EST 2013


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 07:04:54PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> As far as I have been able to tell this is purely a software thing.
> I'm not sure that it's even that it's so complicated as it is that
> there are no standards for APs to talk to each other to do this sort
> of thing so nobody has tackled it as an opensource project.

The question is whether you can get the signal strength for a client
from an AP which isn't associated with the client.  It may not require
special hardwar, but it would seem to me that it would require special
firmware in the WiFi device on the AP, right?

						- Ted



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