Thanks for the answer !! This will really help me narrow down what is happening. On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:45:13AM +0100, Christoffer Gurell wrote: >> The wifi network the devices are connected to is of very low quality >> (bad signal and high noise) but it still works enought for our >> purposes. The devices seem to be temporarily blacklisting the AP every >> now and then. This is not ideal but as long as they remove it from the >> blacklist again I can live with this. >> >> But some devices finally blacklist and remove the network (exactly at >> the same time) from wpa_supplicant.conf. Never again attempting to >> connect to that SSID unless i add it back manually. >> >> My question is if there is anything in wpa_supplicant that could cause >> this behaviour, like a "remove repeatedly blacklisted network under >> condition N" or if I should look elsewhere in the platform for >> something that may tell wpa_supplicant to remove and blacklist the >> network for some reason. > > wpa_supplicant does not remove a network block on its own apart from the > special cases of temporary network blocks used for WPS, P2P, and > Interworking purposes. Networks that fail to connect do get temporarily > blacklisted in two different mechanism, but neither of those actually > removes the network profile from configuration. In other words, > something outside wpa_supplicant is needed to do what you described > here. > > -- > Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
