----- Original Message ----- From: John McLean <jdmcl...@shaw.ca> Date: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:18 am Subject: [ath5k-devel] ath5k with hostapd, low beacon rate then no beacons at all (missing/lost/beacons) To: ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, hos...@lists.shmoo.com
> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this behaviour. > > Running hostapd with no clients, or with just one client connected. > > Seeing > beacon rate from 2/second up to 1 every 15 seconds, and > anything in > between. (beacon rate being completely intermittent) Then the > beacons > will go away completely for minutes at a time, (I've recorded as > long as > seven minutes) then they re-appear at this random rate. > (with no input from any outside source that I can see) > > Using: > > kernel: 2.6.32 > ath5k.ko 0.6.0 > compat-wireless-2.6.32.16 > hostapd 0.7.2 > > Monitoring with wireshark running on windows xp with an AirPcap > Nx usb adaptor. > > My hostapd config is: > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd > ctrl_interface_group=0 > interface=wlan0 > bridge=br0 > driver=nl80211 > ssid=H040109D0311 > auth_algs=3 > channel=6 > hw_mode=g > ieee8021x=0 > wmm_enabled=0 > wpa=2 > wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > wpa_pairwise=CCMP > wpa_group_rekey=300 > wpa_gmk_rekey=86400 > wpa_passphrase=newworld > > I can provide any additional info, pcap traces, etc. > > Thx for any input! > > Cheers, John > Problem solved, all my finger trouble. With WireShark I was monitoring on ch11 when my AP was using ch6. Channel bleed. Ch11 was picking up a few of the beacons but not all. With WireShark monitoring on ch6 all is as expected. Cheers, J.
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