In my previous email when I meant *"**User could be initiating scan" *I actually meant "*Application could be initiating scan".*
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Naveen Singh <nav...@nestlabs.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Patrik Flykt < > patrik.fl...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 10:52 -0700, Naveen Singh wrote: >> > This may not happen at all. My understanding is that wpa_supplicant >> would >> > time out only if the AP is not seen in subsequent scans. But the AP is >> > always found in scan as there is nothing wrong at 802.11 level. The user >> > found that WAN cable was not connected so he went ahead and fixed it. >> And >> > now the connection to DHCP server is established but connection will >> still >> > not happen. Is user supposed to power off the AP so that it disappears >> from >> > scan list. >> >> wpa_s will time out wifi networks in 2 minutes if no scans have been >> done to refresh them. For ConnMan it will take ~6 min 20 sec to get >> fresh results with a new scan after the 2 minute expiry time. >> >> If the user is connected to the system, nothing prevents the user from >> connecting manually and immediately after said WAN cable is reattached. >> > > This certainly is an issue because of following reasons: > 1. User could be initiating scan for it to get connected back to network > so there will never be a 2 minute expiry. > 2. WAN detachment was just an example, it could very well be an > intermittent problem which does not require any intervention from user and > problem auto-corrects itself. > 3. Expecting user to connect manually is not an option all the time. User > rely on their devices to get connected on their own so that they can > control these devices from anywhere. > 4. I tested multiple devices in the same environment and each and every > device auto-connected on its own once the problem vansihes. This seems to > me as a use case that we have not considered and it surely requires some > fix in the connman. > >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patrik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> connman mailing list >> connman@connman.net >> https://lists.connman.net/mailman/listinfo/connman >> > > _______________________________________________ connman mailing list connman@connman.net https://lists.connman.net/mailman/listinfo/connman
