Monday, 16 October 2017

What is Reassociation

  • If a client has joined a network and roams from one AP to another within the network, the association is called a re-association. 
  • The primary difference between an association and a re-association event is that a re-association frame sends the MAC address (BSSID) of the previous AP in its re-association request to provide roaming information to the extended WLAN network.

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