That's neat!  Thanks for sharing =)

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On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Jeromie Reeves <[email protected]>wrote:

> Probes, which can be thought of as beacons from a AP. The STA has 2
> ways to find APs. Passive and Active. Passive, it just starts
> at channel 1 and waits X time for a beacon, then moves to the next
> channel (this can be in any order based on manufacture, seams like
> it would be faster to passively wait on the odd even channels since
> most radios will receive a packet that is off by 1 channel). Active
> the send out a probe request asking for AP ESSIS/BSSID X/Y and follows
> the same pattern as passive, but waiting only as long as its
> probe response timeout allows for.  This is what makes some STA's
> re-associate really fast, and others slowly.
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Josh Luthman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That seems like a waste, what does it tx?
> >
> > On May 21, 2011 1:10 AM, "Jeromie Reeves" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Yup they do.
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, David E. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 13:35, Josh Luthman <
> [email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Why would the radio ever be transmitting if it's in station mode?  I
> >>>> thought it only listened this way (and should replicate across
> Tranzeo,
> >>>> other 802.11 product, etc).
> >>>
> >>> I honestly thought that even unconnected stations periodically
> >>> transmitted
> >>> beacon frames, but it's been rather a long time since I read that
> >>> O'Reilly
> >>> book on the 802.11 standards.
> >>>
> >>> David Smith
> >>> MVN.net
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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