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Re: How many null-data probes on connection loss?

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On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 08:32 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> > It seems though that if there's some noise or so on the channel you
> > wouldn't be transmitting, so what kind of "network glitches" might
> > affect this? AP going away unexpectedly for some time?
> 
> I am thinking that if the 'timeout' is 500ms, and the number of probes is 2
> (the default values), then it should probe at 0ms, and at 250ms, and then finally
> fail at 500ms if nothing was received.  In otherwords, X probes, x/timeout apart.

That seems reasonable I guess. Although I'm not sure - perhaps once we
know it failed we *do* want to try a bit quicker again? Otherwise we
have a totally dead period there in the meantime, no?

johannes



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