On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 16:18 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The supplicant has a BSS timeout too, and APs don't get removed from the
> > supplicant's list until the next scan after the timeout happens.  So it
> > could be long after you're out of range, and that means NM would keep
> > trying to reconnect to the AP that's not there because it doesn't know
> > it's gone.
> >
> > There's no good way to know that an AP isn't in range anymore besides
> > probe-scanning for it after you lose the connection to it, which would
> > be a good thing to do.  But would also require some supplicant
> > enhancements.
> 
> OK, the approach in your patch makes sense. I've been running it all
> day, the AP has kicked me off several times and each time NM recovers
> nicely.

Hah, excellent :)  Thanks for testing!

Dan

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