Hi Fred,

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:01 AM, fred veldini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Question about Toffsets and Authsae
>
> I have been doing more testing to identify why stations will randomly go
> into LISTEN Mode.
> I have noticed the Toffset state changes to a negative number and never
> resets to a positive number.
> Could this effect the negotiations between authentication after authsae
> lifetime expire?
> Is there a reason the Toffset would ever need to be a negative number?
>
> This is the state of the two units that dropped there connection.
>
> Station 00:15:6d:5d:4f:76 (on mesh0)
>     inactive time:    1733 ms
>     rx bytes:    22508
>     rx packets:    442
>     tx bytes:    1020
>     tx packets:    6
>     tx retries:    1
>     tx failed:    0
>     signal:      -56 dBm
>     signal avg:    -59 dBm
>     Toffset:    176566414740 us
>     tx bitrate:    1.0 MBit/s
>     mesh llid:    0
>     mesh plid:    0
>     mesh plink:    LISTEN
>     authorized:    yes
>     authenticated:    yes
>     preamble:    long
>     WMM/WME:    yes
>     MFP:        no
>     TDLS peer:        no
>
> Station 00:15:6d:5d:6e:6b (on mesh0)
>     inactive time:    652 ms
>     rx bytes:    4025
>     rx packets:    42
>     tx bytes:    892
>     tx packets:    5
>     tx retries:    0
>     tx failed:    0
>     signal:      -54 dBm
>     signal avg:    -55 dBm
>     Toffset:    -176566414742 us
>     tx bitrate:    1.0 MBit/s
>     mesh llid:    0
>     mesh plid:    0
>     mesh plink:    LISTEN
>     authorized:    yes
>     authenticated:    yes
>     preamble:    long
>     WMM/WME:    yes
>     MFP:        no
>     TDLS peer:        no

The fact that the MFP flag gets reset is pretty strange. It looks like
mac80211 will only ever do this in response to an add/set station
command, but authsae also only sets the MFP flag in conjunction with
authorized and authenticated flags. Hmm.

Is there any interesting dmesg output when this happens? authsae logs?

> If I restart the mesh that has the negative variable in Toffset
> every comes back online with ESTAB and traffic flows nicely.
> and of course MFP turns to yes on both units.
>
> BTW using the latest builds from git.
>
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> Fred
>
>
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Thomas
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