On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 14:32 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote: > From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> > > The connection monitor currently relies on probe requests paired > with probe responses to ensure that a connection is alive. This is > fragile in some environments where probe responses can get lost. > When we receive beacons we can also consider the connection to be > alive, so cancel connection poll instance when we receive a beacon. > > The debug message "cancelling probereq poll due to a received beacon" > is removed as part of this change as this case is hit very often after > the above change and debug log receives significant number of these messages. Not doing that was actually intentional -- we want to know whether or not the connection is working both ways, not just whether we can receive frames. This can certainly be improved, but I'm not sure this is the best approach. johannes
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