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Re: iwlwifi: Reason 7 periodic disconnect

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, but not all AP's do that, at least the one i faced the issue was
not doing that.



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Thanks,
Regards,
Chaitanya T K.
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