Hello,

I seem to run into a issue with Authsae going into LISTEN mode after a link
is up.

I have The latest open80211s builds with Kernel 3.8.0-rc7 - iw-3.8 and
authsae
Running ath5k with 5Ghz radios

Here is my layout.

2 Nodes - Router1 and Router2

I create a mesh on both units with Authsae. The link comes up and my signal
strengths are very good. -52 on both units.  I can send traffic over the
mesh with constant rates being shown in IPERF. After about 15 minutes
Router 1 goes into LISTEN mode but Router 2 still shows ESTAB.
If I restart Router 1 Authsae everything returns to normal.  Now if I redo
my testing everything runs perfectly.

I was able to test everything for about an hour and a half when Router 2
went into LISTEN mode.  This time I waited to see what would happen.  After
1 Hour Router 2 came back on-line.  This looks like it reset from the
LIFETIME timer in authsae.conf which is set to 3600.  Finding this to be
coincidental I changed the LIFETIME to 300 to see if this is true.  Sure
enough after 20 minutes Router 2 went into LISTEN mode again and approx. 5
minutes later the link came back on-line with ESTAB.

There are no errors in the dmesg or syslog showing why the link goes into
LISTEN mode.

In Debug mode of Authsae I see on Router 1
NL80211_CMD_FRAME (1364569888.215036)
----------
rx frame hexdump
d0 00 ac 00 00 15 6d 94 6e 6b 00 15 6d 94 4f 76 00 15 6d 94
4f 76 80 03 0f 03 72 0b 6d 79 2d 6d 65 73 68 2d 39 30 30 75
06 00 00 00 00 34 00
----------
Mesh plink: incorrect plink ie length 3 6
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In Debug mode of Authsae I see on Router 2
NL80211_CMD_NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE(1364569889.195515)
new unauthed sta (seq num=1364569906)
NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION (1364569889.195897)

Not sure why the links would go into LISTEN mode sporadically.
But it seems that after the LIFETIME timer fires they restart there
handshake and reconnect.
Is there a way for the ESTAB side of the link to know that a connection is
in LISTEN mode on the other side?
Is having the LIFETIME timer set to a low value a bad thing for traffic and
or linking of multiple nodes, say over 10 node with LIFETIME set to 30.

Any help would be appreciated.

Fred
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