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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: reset connection poll on receiving unicast
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:14 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> In noisy channel conditions, some APs do not reply to probe
> requests which results in STA disconnection. It is perfectly
> fine to reset the connection polling if unicast frames are
> received from that AP properly.

I'm not convinced. We often have no trouble hearing the AP but the AP
isn't hearing us because sensitivity is different etc.

johannes