Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Justin V.
I keep seeing my wlan0 interface go down.. I suspected a faulty wifi router.. i changed that out.. Ive tried using WEP and WPA. Currently using WPA. Here are the logs Im seeing.. Dec 16 07:47:57 yeaguy wpa_supplicant[9492]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys Dec 16

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Mubeesh ali
can u completely not send any traffic or is this a random drop. If random there could be interference causing replay counter mismatch. This may force AP to drop the packet, the ap may de authenticate client if it sees continuous stream of such packets in a short interval and force client to drop

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Justin V.
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote: can u completely not send any traffic or is this a random drop. If random there could be interference causing replay counter mismatch. This may force AP to drop the packet, the ap may de authenticate client if it sees continuous stream of such packets

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi Justin, I see 7 beacon misses on the interface which is not good the client disconnects on beacon miss...typically most ap's are configured to send a beacon every 100 ms . ..this looks similar http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/1957 thanks, Mubeesh On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Justin V.

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Justin V.
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote: Hi Justin, I see 7 beacon misses on the interface which is not good the client disconnects on beacon miss...typically most ap's are configured to send a beacon every 100 ms . ..this looks similar http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/1957 thanks,

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Justin V. v...@yeaguy.com wrote: interesting.. do you know of a better adapter to use?? ive done a search on wlan0 and bmiss.. alot of threads regarding that issue, but all the threads show bmiss 7 ?? does that seem odd?? FYI, you can change bmiss value with

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Justin V.
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Justin V. v...@yeaguy.com wrote: interesting.. do you know of a better adapter to use?? ive done a search on wlan0 and bmiss.. alot of threads regarding that issue, but all the threads show bmiss 7 ?? does that seem

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread Da Rock
On 12/17/10 03:46, Justin V. wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote: can u completely not send any traffic or is this a random drop. If random there could be interference causing replay counter mismatch. This may force AP to drop the packet, the ap may de authenticate client if it

Re: Wifi keeps dropping.. not sure why, looking for tips/suggestions on debugging this

2010-12-16 Thread justin v
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:38:54 -0800, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 12/17/10 03:46, Justin V. wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote: can u completely not send any traffic or is this a random drop. If random there could be interference causing replay