Re: bin/50045: wpa_supplicant unreliable, dropping connections

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:55:00PM +0000, pbraun%nethence.com@localhost wrote:
> >Number:         50045
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       wpa_supplicant unreliable, dropping connections
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 12 12:55:00 +0000 2015
> >Originator:     pierre-philipp
> >Release:        7.0_RC1 and current
> >Organization:
> Nethence
> >Environment:
> tested with 7.0_RC1 kernel & user land
> tested with current (2015 07 10) kernel & user land
> probably with older releases also
> >Description:
> Very similar to problem report 32536
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32536
> 
> Using wpa supplicant, the connection drops when I download something, i.e. pkg_add some package remotely with PKG_PATH pointing to my nearest mirror in my country.  It seems to happens when ever there is high traffic as mentionned in the other problem report.  I do not do any ssl tunnel and I get the same trouble.

Perhaps renewal of security associations is timing out because of delays
caused by buffer bloat in the driver?  That might be worth a look.  Does
latency (measured by a ping) get very high?

Dave

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David Young
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