On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> 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.

Thanks
Daniel
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