On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 05:05:24PM +0000, mailinglists wrote: > Hello, > > thank you very much for your support. > With your explanation I found the causer. > It is my WiFi Repeater (Fritz!Wlan Repeater 1160). > If I connecting directly to my AP, the connection works fine and > "netstat -W iwn" is not eye-catching. > I tried to fix it with resetting the Repeater. I also choosed a less > used channel. > Indeed the repeater still trying to death auth me:
> Can you say me if this is a problem of the shitty repeater. So I will > throw it away and maybe make my own or buy a better one. I don't know. Repeaters are not properly standardized in IEEE802.11. I don't think interop is guaranteed between products from different vendors. Perhaps you were supposed to buy all your devices from Fritz and use their proprietary drivers for this to work? Are you sure this repeater works with all your other clients? Hmm. Perhaps with deauth the repeater is trying to tell us to please move to the AP itself because they're both too close in range? Different OSs use different heuristics for choosing APs. Perhaps the clients which work will always pick your real AP? But more likely deauths happen because WPA authentication is failing at the repeater. Does the repeater perhaps use a wrong WPA key or wrong crypto settings (e.g. WPA1 instead of WPA2)? > Or is it a bug of OpenBSD which maybe fixed in a newer version? So I > would wait. OpenBSD does not really remember how often an AP has failed, so a bad AP may keep coming back and look as great as new when it does. Perhaps that's a "bug" you are running into. Patches welcome :)
