Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use beacons for connection monitoring

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 07/29/2009 02:32 PM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> From: Reinette Chatre<reinette.chatre@intel.com>
>
> The connection monitor currently relies on probe requests paired
> with probe responses to ensure that a connection is alive. This is
> fragile in some environments where probe responses can get lost.
> When we receive beacons we can also consider the connection to be
> alive, so cancel connection poll instance when we receive a beacon.

I'm chasing a similar problem while working on virtual STA device
support in ath5k.  I was also going to try sending up to 3 polls before
giving up on the connection.  Does that seems like a valid thing to do?

I'll try using this patch as well to see if that helps.

Thanks,
Ben

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