There's only enough space in RAM in the NIC to store state for 8 associated clients.
There's been talk about dumbing down the firmware in the NIC so it doesn't do much more than be a data conduit and handle basic retries, so this limit wouldn't be hit. but it'd be a reasonably thorough rearchitecture of the driver and firmware. -a On 13 April 2014 12:55, Kyle Bassett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gui, > > Can you elaborate on the 8 clients limit? > > > > On Saturday, April 12, 2014, Gui Iribarren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 04/12/2014 05:18 PM, Aaron Hamilton wrote: >> > I'm using an ath9k_htc (ZCN-722M/0cf3:9271) as an AP and after several >> > hours of use, client devices can no longer attach. When everything stops >> > working, there's no indication whatsoever in the log. >> >> You might be hitting the 8 clients limit of that hardware+firmware >> >> check out iw wlanX station dump when the issue happens, and see if you >> already have 7 clients associated. >> >> cheers! >> >> > >> > If I restart hostapd, everything seems to work fine for a while, but >> > then stops working again. >> > >> > I'm currently using backports-3.12.8-1 with a 2.6.39.4 kernel and a >> > simple hostapd config (see attached config files). >> > >> > Am I missing something or should I be using a different version of >> > something? >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ath9k-devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> ath9k-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
