Whatever method the developer feels best is good with me (wpa_supplicant.conf, a /sys interface, etc). As long as its available either through a text file or "echo"ing to an interface via the command line (something simple/easy). I'm not sure I understood the timeout configuration. Does it have a max of 300 seconds, or 300 seconds plus a random addition of 0 to 10 * num_failures? And if it is the second case, is there a maximum, or can the number of failures increase to 100 ... 1,000? Seems like that could result in practically disabling the retry (if it took a week plus to retry one time). Given this information (about the automatic timeout increase), I would amend my last request to be add a setting for a maximum timeout value... the automatic increasing / backoff functionality is fine. It would just be very helpful to know (and be configurable) that the unit will attempt a reconnection every x seconds/minutes at a maximum. This really helps in situations where a unit is in far less than an optimal coverage area, but can eventually get a connection to upload whatever information it has collected. Thanks, jake On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:10 AM, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:45:54PM -0500, Jake Magee wrote: >> Would it also be possible to allow the back-off period to be >> configurable? 77 seconds is fine for me right now, but I can foresee >> someone down the road requesting this to be 1 minute, or 5 minutes, >> etc. > > How would you like to configure it? > > There is no 77 second fixed timeout. The current behavior is to increase > the period automatically based on how many consecutive failures there > have been (from 10 seconds to 300 seconds plus a random addition of > 0..10*failures seconds). I'd rather make the automatic determination > behave in reasonable manner on its own than provide complex > configuration parameters for changing this behavior. > > -- > Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
