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Re: iwlwifi: Reason 7 periodic disconnect

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Laurențiu Nicola <lnicola@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> No, nothing in the DD-WRT syslog. The IP seems to be the one cached by
>>>> my DHCP client. I also tried various suggestions found on the internet,
>>>> but nothing helped.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you please try to have another device in monitor mode to sniff the
>>> traffic going on?
>>> Felix, can you please tell me when DD-WRT can send a deauth with reason code 7?
>>>
>>> thanks.
>>
>> Can you please disable power save?
>> For this, please make sure you have
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-fixes.git/commit/?id=f8dfc607b2b460e8e8adfdfb3c5f5bba3a4ad01b
>> or at least have the module parameter.
>> I am wondering if the firmware is not sending frames because of power
>> save toggling.
>>
>> I you could get more extensive logs from the AP it'd be great.
>> Running tracing on the AP would let us know why it thinks we are not associated.
>>
> I have faced the same issue before it happens when DUT is in powersave
> and for some reason AP authenticates (in this case probably due to
*typo: deuauthenticates.

> inactivity) but as DUT is in power save we don't Rx the deauth (some
> AP's don't wait
> for STA to wakeup and retrieve the deauth frame).
>
> So after that if DUT tries to sent any data frame, as it still thinks
> that it is connected
> (network lost also will not trigger because it still Rx beacon) and in
> that case AP deauthenticates
> us by Reason:7.
>
> May be if we enable tx status report ACK we can pass the inactivity
> check as some AP's
> wont reset inactivity timer for probe's.
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