On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 08:54:35AM -0600, Patrick Dohman wrote: > > > > On Dec 29, 2019, at 6:50 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > > > > I don't understand your question. > > What is a "handover" and what does soft vs. hard mean? > > I apologize for the confusion. > A 80211 handover refers to a AP "switch" > > * After a background scan, we have now switched APs. > * Pretend we were just de-authed, which makes > * ieee80211_new_state() try to re-auth and thus send > * an AUTH frame to our newly selected AP. > > A soft handover infers a continuation of “link” often in correlation > with a multiple transmission and receiving antenna
I don't think the devices we support could do this. If both APs are in the same layer 2 network the transition is usually seamless already.
