wpa_cli ping-pong and power management

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Tue Jan 20 14:15:13 EST 2009


On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:

> Have you considered raising the alarm() interval of wpa_cli so that
> laptops will consume less power?

I changed the default ping interval to be 5 seconds and made this
configurable with a command line parameter (-G<seconds>) should a longer
interval be desired (and -G0 disables the ping process).

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


More information about the HostAP mailing list