Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> mac80211 immediately assumes the connection is broken, if one probe-resp >> to a keekalife-proberequest is lost. >> So if you scan just after the request got sent, you'll never receive the response >> and mac80211 will terminate the connection. >> It should try a few times, instead, before blowing up things. > > I've seen this happening in high traffic with some APs but it can be > also NIC issue. It needs to really investigate the sniffer capture I > wouldn't assume its only mac80211 issue. Probe is issued only when RX > is not received for some time so there is some problem, nevertheless > monitoring beacons is a better approach from my experience. I agree, monitoring received beacons and the number of failed transmissions would be better. But on the other hand some broken APs might work better if we periodically send frames to them. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
