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Re: iwlwifi: Reason 7 periodic disconnect

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2014-10-21 10:23, Laurențiu Nicola wrote:
>>> It's an ASUS RT-N66U running NEWD-2/K3X from r24160.
>> This is a Broadcom based device, so it should behave in the same way as
>> other APs/Routers running the Broadcom drivers.
>> The driver should only send Reason 7 when receiving a PS-Poll, BlockAck,
>> BlockAckReq or Action frame from a station that's not associated, so
>> probably it has already kicked out your iwlwifi client earlier. Not sure
>> why that doesn't show up in the log though.
>>
> May be iwlwifi is dozing and did not Rx that frame?

yep - this is most probably what happens. iwlwifi goes to sleep and it
get a deauth that it doesn't hear. Then it wakes up with an NDP and
gets kicked out.
But shouldn't the deauth be buffered and indicated through the TIM IE?
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