Ignores both bssid and channel on 10.14.6

[super-cache-money]

When I run:

bssid connect {bssid}

or:

bssid connect --ssid "Wifi Network" --channel 36

The wifi icon in the task bar does flash, and I can see a reconnection happening, but it just connects to the same wrong network it was on before.

I have tried sudo - same thing.

[jam07912]

I want to second that for Monterey 12.6.
My understanding is that the prompt is successful, but within the usual interval specified internally by macOS for checking the best available network (using unknown parameters to define "best"), an overwrite will take place.
The package therefore either needs to suppress this automated network automatisation (probably hard) or needs to overwrite it at the same timing interval such that the prompt is issued regularly and not just once.

[braineo]

I want to second that for Monterey 12.6. My understanding is that the prompt is successful, but within the usual interval specified internally by macOS for checking the best available network (using unknown parameters to define "best"), an overwrite will take place. The package therefore either needs to suppress this automated network automatisation (probably hard) or needs to overwrite it at the same timing interval such that the prompt is issued regularly and not just once.

Thank you for the feedback. I guess so. it is very frustrating nowadays to hack anything on Mac.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corewlan/cwinterface/1426455-associate

it is using Core WLAN essentially and nothing special. The associate call actually did succeed and there is no warning return.

I suspect it is something related to the WiFi network connection strategy but I did not seem to find anything related.