From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Logs spammed by associate / authenticate / CRDA calls
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:26:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D34C225.4060108@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D34BC83.2030406@candelatech.com>
On 01/17/2011 04:02 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 12:26 PM, Daniel Halperin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Larry Finger
>>
>> Scanning happens every time you associate/re-associate; disassociation
>> due to inactivity happens when your device doesn't send packets to the
>> AP for some period of time. It looks like your AP's (or device's)
>> timeout is 100s.
>
> From what I can tell, this message can also happen if the local
> STA thinks it cannot connect to the remote. For instance, if it
> doesn't get a TX callback within 500ms for ath5k/ath9k (and perhaps
> others).
Thanks Dan and Ben. It is clearly not an ordinary timeout from inactivity as it
happens even when I'm doing a download. I'll push it back to the Realtek people
to see if they can figure out a cause.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-17 20:18 Logs spammed by associate / authenticate / CRDA calls Larry Finger
2011-01-17 20:26 ` Daniel Halperin
2011-01-17 22:02 ` Ben Greear
2011-01-17 22:26 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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