Return-path: Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:43087 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933289AbZHECWe (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:22:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/002] [MAC80211] Retry probe request few times From: Marcel Holtmann To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: linux-wireless , linville , Reinette Chatre , Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <1249056896.20593.3.camel@maxim-laptop> References: <1249056817.20593.1.camel@maxim-laptop> <1249056896.20593.3.camel@maxim-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:22:27 -0700 Message-Id: <1249438947.3094.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Maxim, > From: Maxim Levitsky > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:54:12 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] [MAC80211] Retry probe request few times > > Retry 5 times (chosen arbitary ), before assuming > that station is out of range. so today I got the disconnect :( [54632.657912] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 1 [54633.154560] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 2 [54873.231210] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 1 [55113.467840] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 1 [55113.964510] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 2 [55114.464516] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 3 [55114.967868] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, try 4 [55115.464511] No probe response from AP 00:1c:f0:xx:xx:xx after 500ms, disconnecting. Should we increase the value to 8 or something? Or just accept that sometimes we get a disconnect? Regards Marcel