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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use beacons for connection monitoring
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:47:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248983225.10971.5.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248975923.1216.1074.camel@rc-desk>

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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:45 -0700, reinette chatre wrote:

> I captured the exchange when this problem occurs using a third system.
> The card does indeed try several times to send a probe request and they
> are making it out over the air. The AP never responds. 
> 
> Is there perhaps anything in this exchange that can help us understand
> what is going on?
> 
> No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Info
>  163883 401.891153  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=980, FN=0, Flags=........, SSID="XXX"
>  163885 401.891482  00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Response, SN=3557, FN=0, Flags=........, BI=100, SSID="XXX"

It's responding here,

>  165523 404.884405  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=981, FN=0, Flags=........, SSID="XXX"
>  165525 404.885265  00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Response, SN=3827, FN=0, Flags=....R..., BI=100, SSID="XXX"

and here,

>  166981 407.884161  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=982, FN=0, Flags=........, SSID="XXX"
>  166983 407.884555  00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Response, SN=4034, FN=0, Flags=........, BI=100, SSID="XXX"

and here,

>  168133 410.884167  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=........, SSID="XXX"
>  168134 410.884430  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168135 410.884643  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168136 410.884904  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168137 410.885073  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168138 410.885330  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168139 410.885580  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168140 410.885769  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168141 410.886618  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168142 410.887087  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168143 410.887308  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"
>  168144 410.887532  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Probe Request, SN=983, FN=0, Flags=....R..., SSID="XXX"

but then it stops -- try to send that frame 12 times in quick
succession.

>  168191 411.084889  00:16:ea:XX:XX:XX     00:14:f2:XX:XX:XX     IEEE 802.11 Deauthentication, SN=984, FN=0, Flags=........

And then give up. Oddly, that frame is not retried?! I would expect that
to be retried too if the AP has gone south!?

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-29 21:32 [PATCH] mac80211: use beacons for connection monitoring Reinette Chatre
2009-07-29 21:39 ` Ben Greear
2009-07-30 10:30   ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-30 14:41     ` Ben Greear
2009-07-30 17:45     ` reinette chatre
2009-07-30 19:47       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-07-29 21:45 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-29 21:50   ` reinette chatre
2009-07-30  5:24     ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-29 22:10   ` Ben Greear
2009-07-30 10:28     ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-30  2:39   ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-30  9:36   ` Helmut Schaa
2009-07-30  9:54     ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-31  7:08 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31  7:43   ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-31  7:58     ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-31  8:04       ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31  9:41         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-31 13:19     ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31 13:39       ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-31 13:56         ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-07-31 14:06           ` Johannes Berg

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