Thanks for the feedback. I prepared a patch and sent it to this mailing list for consideration. -Mitchell Augustin On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 11:55 -0500, Mitchell Augustin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > It is not uncommon now for very dense areas to have more than 200 > > access points. With the DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT set to 200, we have > > observed that some devices in such areas can fail to detect even the > > nearest APs reliably. This seems to be resolved when the value is > > sufficiently high to list all APs in range. > > > > Has there been any discussion about raising this default value in > > wpa_supplicant, given the increasing prevalence of AP-dense areas? > > Not that I know of, but FWIW the kernel has a (default but never > changed) limit of 1000, so having a so far lower limit in wpa_s might > really not make much sense. > > johannes -- Mitchell Augustin Software Engineer - Ubuntu Partner Engineering Email:mitchell.augustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Location:United States of America canonical.com ubuntu.com _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
