Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:01:01 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/ath log messages Message-ID: <200601061801.12841.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43BE9F0A.5000200@errno.com> References: <200601060340.35999.akbeech@gmail.com> <43BE9F0A.5000200@errno.com>
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--nextPart1203715.moLr5JRJVm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 06 January 2006 07:47 am, Sam Leffler wrote: > Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I have noticed that for about the past month or so I've been getting > > hundreds of the following every day in /var/log/messages: > > > > +ath0: link state changed to DOWN > > +ath0: link state changed to UP > > > > It doesn't seem to affect connectivity, but it's really annoying in the > > security report. Is there anything I can do to stop this? I'm running > > -CURRENT from yesterday. I have built Sam's new drivers, but this probl= em > > started long before that and was not affected by the upgrade. The lease > > on the AP I'm connecting to is good for 24 hours so I don't think that's > > an issue. I looked at the traffic with ethereal and everything looks > > normal. I'm getting sorely tempted to go back to isc-dhclient and see if > > this goes away, but I thought I would ask here first. > > sysctl net.link.log_link_state_change=3D0 > > will make the msgs go away. I do this on all my laptops. > > The issue (which should be in an FAQ) is that your station is > reassociating to the ap, typically because you are idle. Each time this > happens the link state goes down+up. The dhcp lease is not relevant. > You might be able to tweak ap parameters to increase the idle timeout > but aside from the link state msgs there's no reason to. > > Sam Thanks Sam, that did fix my problem. That was really annoying, especially I= f I=20 wanted to look at dmesg and that was all that was there. Maybe that should= =20 default to "0" with the option to turn it on as I'm sure most users don't=20 want all those messages. just my $.02 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1203715.moLr5JRJVm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDvy74Vq19LUoGB+MRAkO3AJ9/WZtz4D97k55aWPlO6JvFVmtQjQCeP/o5 n1XElXSueSsLOSX+ULb721Q= =PLqx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1203715.moLr5JRJVm--
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