Re: ath0, link goes down then up periodically

From: Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:23:48 -0700
Eric Masson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a Planet WL3560 (atheros chipset) with -current as a DLink
> DWL2000AP client :
> 
> Sometimes, ath0 link state goes down then up :
> http://emss.free.fr/informatique/FreeBSD/messages
> 
> 80211debug has been set with the following options :
> /usr/local/bin/80211debug +debug +assoc +xrate +power +scan +wme
> 
> Any idea ?

Your station is re-associating with the ap; this is normal. 
Unfortunately the link state msgs are on by default so you get lots of 
noise as a result.  There's a sysctl to turn them off globally.

	Sam
Received on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 15:23:25 UTC

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