wpa_supplicant: authentication timeout problem

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Wed Jun 20 23:14:47 EDT 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:25:10PM +0530, Jagadish wrote:

> The authentication timeouts in wpa_supplicant source code are set around 
> 200ms. I ran wpa_supplicant at client side
> and associated to AP-1. After successful association with AP-1, I 
> switched off AP-1. Now it disassociated with AP-1.
> Now it has to associate with AP-2. But I am observing authentication 
> timeouts (failed to authenticate) for some times. After some iterations 
> it is able to associate with AP-2.
> If I introduce one second delay after getting disassociation event (for 
> AP-1) from the driver, I am able to associate
> with AP-2 immediately after one second delay without any authentication 
> timeouts.

Can you please send sebug log from wpa_supplicant with timestamps (-ddt
on command line) from both the unmodified and modified version? Please
also send the configuration file you used at the client (no need to
include username/passwords; I'm just interested in other parameters like
ap_scan).

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