I'm running into an issue where my AP blasts a ton of ready-to-send packets out when a client goes out of range or unexpectedly disconnects with no disassociation. This flood of packets slows its own network down as well as any other networks on the same channel or adjacent channels. The flood lasts for about 20s, but I can reduce that to about 1s when using disassoc_low_ack=1 in hostapd.conf. I'm running: linux 3.10.17 ath9k/mac80211/cfg80211 from backports 12/21/2014 hostapd-2.4 I've tried turning off RTS with iw (iw phy0 set rts off) as well as changing the threshold values with no effect. It appears the RTS setting is being overridden by minstrel_ht (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg126563.html) but I'm not sure if thats really the source of my problem. Is this expected behavior? Its having a pretty major impact on other clients on my network and other networks around me... is there anyway can I work around it? I'd prefer not to use the disassoc_low_ack as it tends to decrease the maximum range clients can connect and it only reduces the flood to about 1s. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
