[ltp] ipw2915 disconnects, continued

[fire-eyes]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> WPA will cause connection loss at every key rollover (but the driver
> shouldn't crash... here it didn't, at least). WPA2 fixes this. =A0CCMP of=
ten
> does one such rollover after you transmit a lot of data (plus whenever yo=
ur
> AP wants to do scheduled rollovers, so check its configuration).

Hm. I'll have to edit the text file, I am using WPA2.

> Using the latest ipw2200 driver, latest ieee80211 subsystem AND latest
> wpa_supplicant can be a dramatic improvement on stability for cyphertext
> operation. =A0Try it. =A0You'll get far less firmware restarts.

As far as I know I am, "testing" versions on Gentoo at least. I will check =
to=20
see if their versions are behind however, thanks for the pointer.

> As for the problems you seem to have, you should *never* get CCMP replay
> problems, unless the AP is severely buggy. =A0First, upgrade the firmware=
 in
> your AP if a newer one is available (Linksys does update firmware images,
> even if not nearly as often as they should). =A0Second, are you sure your
> wireless network is not under attack?

Hm. I have seen plenty of CCMP replay problems in both the old and new AP=20
(both Linksys, about 3 years in age apart). Firmware is latest. As far as=20
under attack, that's an unlikely, but interesting, idea... I will have to=20
sniff around and see if anybody is up to any crap.

Thanks!

=2D-=20
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