On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 15:57 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> What about two APs with ssid LEDE and open-auth, each serving DHCP,
> each connected to a switch that connects to a cable modem, etc.

Take a cluebat to the adminstrator?

It's really simple to disable DHCP on one of them, and if you properly
connect them to the same switch, everything works. I've done that in a
few places (not my own house because a single AP covers it well enough
for me, so ...).

> On initial connection to the network, the station does DHCP and gets
> a response, like normal.
> But, that response has a special message in it that says "you don't
> need to re-do dhcp if you roam here".
> User-space remembers this response for future roams...
> 
> After that, then you skip DHCP on roam to this SSID/auth network, so
> you have zero extra network overhead when roaming.

That will be so much harder to configure.

johannes

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