From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 3 15:10:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD22F37B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B96343E42 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA3NAopk079250; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:10:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:09:39 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021103.160939.17267401.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disconnect and Reconnects using Hostap From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20021103.160046.34602778.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <001a01c2831f$2ae87f20$c20aa8c0@lfarr> <20021103.160046.34602778.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <20021103.160046.34602778.imp@bsdimp.com> "M. Warner Losh" writes: : In message: <001a01c2831f$2ae87f20$c20aa8c0@lfarr> : "Lawrence Farr" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message