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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: ieee80211: Spamming of log resulting from packets with ExtIV  not set
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:16:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46171B36.6090108@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070407013848.GG16197@jm.kir.nu>

Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:53:34PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Using bcm43xx-softmac, my log gets full of messages that look like:
>>
>> Apr  6 18:06:55 larrylap kernel: TKIP: ICV error detected: 
>> STA=00:14:bf:85:49:fa
> 
> Does the driver properly filter out FCS errors? If not, the proper fix
> is to fix the driver to do that. If yes, I'm quite surprised that you
> see these messages so frequently.

As far as I can tell, FCS errors are not filtered. I looked at other wireless drivers, and I can see 
where zd1211rw filters them, but I have not yet figured out what routine sets the error bits. Once I 
have that and filter them, I'll see if the log messages stop.

Thanks for the advice,

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-07  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-06 23:53 RFC: ieee80211: Spamming of log resulting from packets with ExtIV not set Larry Finger
2007-04-07  1:38 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-04-07  4:16   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-04-07  4:33     ` Jouni Malinen
2007-04-07  7:56       ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-04-08  8:10     ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-08 10:18       ` Michael Buesch
2007-04-08 14:09   ` Larry Finger

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