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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: No ProbeResp - assume out of range
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 23:03:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811022303.54476.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890811021305k19e9a314i6400cd1a759b3d00@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 02 November 2008 22:05:56 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm curious if others are getting this frequently as I am:
> 
> No ProbeResp from current AP 00:DE:AD:BE:EE:FF - assume out of range
> 
> I get this with ath5k and ath9k, can be triggered easily in ath5k by
> doing a lot of consecutive:
> 
> iwlist wlan0 scan
> 
> I have to check if I can trigger this with ath9k by scanning too. We
> were seeing this with ath9k but were thinking it was ath9k related as
> it can be triggered on it after doing a large TX. Wondering if this is
> more of a generic and mac80211 issue.

IMO this is a mac80211 issue.
mac80211 immediately assumes the connection is broken, if one probe-resp
to a keekalife-proberequest is lost.
So if you scan just after the request got sent, you'll never receive the response
and mac80211 will terminate the connection.
It should try a few times, instead, before blowing up things.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-02 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02 21:05 No ProbeResp - assume out of range Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-02 22:03 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-11-02 22:29   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-02 22:52     ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-02 22:42   ` Tomas Winkler
2008-11-02 22:58     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-03  0:25       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-03 16:48         ` Felix Fietkau
2008-11-03 17:50           ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-04  5:32             ` Bharat Bhushan
2008-11-04  7:05               ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-04  6:58             ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-04 11:17         ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-04 12:43           ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-03  7:19     ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-02 22:33 ` Davide Pesavento
2008-11-04 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-04 19:15   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-05 10:30     ` Kalle Valo

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