On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 12:39 +0300, Eyal Shapira wrote: > EAPOLs are sent at high rates as they are considered > data packets. Some APs like Motorola Symbol AP7131 and AP650 > don't respond well to these rates and don't respond with > EAPOL 3/4 consistently. When sending EAPOL 2/4 at 54Mbps > we've seen approx 30% success rate in getting EAPOL 3/4 response > while using 11Mbps we got 100% success. > To increase the chances of successful 4-Way handshake with > such APs, send EAPOLs with basic rate policy in order to avoid > high rates. > > Signed-off-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: added info about the APs and problem (Thanks Johannes!) > Aside from that I'll send a separate patch for mac80211 so non HW rate > control drivers will do the same. Applied, thanks! -- Luca. -- 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
