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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status

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On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:32 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:23 +0100, Wojciech Dubowik wrote:
> 
> > >> I have seen it before in my testing and it gets
> > >> a lot worse with system load.  Sometimes it can
> > >> retry auth/assoc frames for 10 seconds before
> > >> connecting.
> > >> Anyway it always looses the first authentication frame.
> > > I think I see what's happening -- can you try this patch?
> > >
> > > http://p.sipsolutions.net/61f4271fed0e446b.txt
> > >
> > I have tried and it doesn't do timeout anymore. I will continue
> > testing with more load.
> 
> Ok. I just realized that it needs to receive frames for this to happen,
> which may not happen here because my environment is quiet.
> 
> Let me know, I'll also try to test a bit more.

Yep, I can reproduce it when I make the beacon interval very short and
also let hostapd delay the auth and/or assoc response by 30ms. This
patch fixes it for me, let me know how it goes in your test.

johannes

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