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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wlcore: send EAPOLs with basic rate policy
From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:04:36 +0300
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On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 12:39 +0300, Eyal Shapira wrote:
> EAPOLs are sent at high rates as they are considered
> data packets. Some APs like Motorola Symbol AP7131 and AP650
> don't respond well to these rates and don't respond with
> EAPOL 3/4 consistently. When sending EAPOL 2/4 at 54Mbps
> we've seen approx 30% success rate in getting EAPOL 3/4 response
> while using 11Mbps we got 100% success.
> To increase the chances of successful 4-Way handshake with
> such APs, send EAPOLs with basic rate policy in order to avoid
> high rates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@wizery.com>
> ---
> v2: added info about the APs and problem (Thanks Johannes!)
> Aside from that I'll send a separate patch for mac80211 so non HW rate
> control drivers will do the same.

Applied, thanks!

--
Luca.