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
next prev parent 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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