Re: Possible fix for wpa_supplicant(8) WPA re-key lossage

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:54:46 +0200
Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost> wrote:

> Everytime I load a "heavy" web page (most Wikipedia entries are
> enough), the link gets lost (and for other users of the network as
> well). It then says it times out looking up 00:00:00:00:00 and
> connects again after a minute or two.
> 
> I am using NetBSD/amd64 from an hour ago, with a wpi card.
> 
I lose connections -- "fatal firmware error" -- very frequently with a
wpi on amd64 card under heavy traffic conditions.  I haven't tried WPA;
I see the failures with WEP and cleartext connections.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb