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From: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, hostap@lists.shmoo.com,
	Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A station can't reconnect after it wakes up
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:55:24 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252968924.26765.294.camel@sunlight> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909141431.31091.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 14:31 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > 4. The STA device wakes up and begins 
> > authentication with an Auth frame as it hasn't been
> > authenticated/associated previously.
> 
> What's the status of the PS bit of this Auth Frame?

The PS bit of the Auth frame indicates that the STA is under power.
And mac80211 checks the PS bit in data frames only, but not in
management ones.

> Does the station here send a NULL func packet with the "I'm under 
> power again" bit?   It might be necessary to do this via a 
> null-func packet towards some broken APs.

No, it doesn't send. The station works under Windows Mobile 6, and I
can't change its implementation. Contrary, I'm working on making a
Linux/hostapd AP non-broken.

Igor



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1248969930.29068.224.camel@sunlight>
2009-07-31 16:16 ` A station can't reconnect after it wakes up Artur Skawina
2009-08-03 15:22   ` Igor Perminov
2009-09-10 22:03     ` Igor Perminov
2009-09-12 14:58       ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-12 23:51         ` Igor Perminov
2009-09-13  0:24           ` Christian Lamparter
2009-09-13 14:14           ` Kalle Valo
2009-09-14 11:24             ` Igor Perminov
2009-09-14 12:31               ` Holger Schurig
2009-09-14 22:55                 ` Igor Perminov [this message]
2009-09-14 12:50               ` Jouni Malinen
2009-09-14 17:42                 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-28 15:38 Igor Perminov

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