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: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:09:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4618F787.9080903@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.
According to Johannes Berg and Michael Buesch, the bcm43xx firmware filters the frames with FCS
errors before they even get to the driver. I'm still looking to see if I can find a way to filter
the offending packets further to keep them from getting to ieee80211.
Thanks,
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-08 14:08 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
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 [this message]
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