Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:09:39 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disconnect and Reconnects using Hostap Message-ID: <20021103.160939.17267401.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021103.160046.34602778.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <001a01c2831f$2ae87f20$c20aa8c0@lfarr> <20021103.160046.34602778.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message: <20021103.160046.34602778.imp@bsdimp.com>
"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: In message: <001a01c2831f$2ae87f20$c20aa8c0@lfarr>
: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk> writes:
: : That works flawlessly, until a connected machine is idle network
: : wise for a few minutes. The client machine disconnects and then
: : immediately reconnects to the hostap box. Same machines don't do
: : this on a "real" access point. Any ideas anyone?
:
: That's how hostap is implemented now. After you've been idle for a
: while, you are kicked off to avoid tables in the kernel growning w/o
: bound.
If that's a big problem for you, I'd accept patches to make it not do
that, or to greatly increase the idle time.
Warner
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