Bug 13950 - Network List does not refresh when AP is powered off
: Network List does not refresh when AP is powered off
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Product: SB Radio
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Networking
: Include FW version in comment
: PC Other
: P2 normal (vote)
: 7.6.0
Assigned To: Felix Mueller
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-09-10 09:53 UTC by James Richardson
Modified: 2011-05-09 15:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Category: Bug


Attachments
Shorten scan list cache timeout in wlan driver (1.26 KB, text/plain)
2010-05-17 06:19 UTC, Felix Mueller
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Description James Richardson 2009-09-10 09:53:54 UTC
I have noticed that on the Baby if I power off an AP that the baby has 'seen' or connected to, that the AP will stay in the list for up-to 30 minutes.

This does not happen on Jive or Fab.  Other beta testers have seen this as well
Comment 1 Felix Mueller 2009-09-14 03:05:58 UTC
Fab4 takes about 20 seconds to remove a turned off AP whereas Baby takes about 5 minutes max so far in my tests. (I have not yet seen an AP stick in the list for 30 minutes.) Using 'wpa_cli scan_results' I can see that Atheros driver is keeping the entries so it's an issue in the driver rather than in the application code.
Comment 2 Pat Ransil 2009-09-15 17:46:04 UTC
Put this on the bottom of your list for 7.4. Hope we get to it but may not.
Comment 3 Felix Mueller 2009-09-28 10:11:31 UTC
*** Bug 14363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Chris Owens 2010-03-15 18:08:14 UTC
7.4.x milestone is in the past
Comment 5 Chris Owens 2010-03-15 18:09:26 UTC
7.4.x milestone is in the past
Comment 6 Felix Mueller 2010-03-23 01:50:20 UTC
Update hours worked
Comment 7 Felix Mueller 2010-04-07 08:08:53 UTC
Feedback from Kevin (Atheros). I have not yet tried it.

Here is suggested solution:
In ieee80211_node.h, the WLAN_NODE_INACT_TIMEOUT_MSEC can be change to 30000.  This will shorten the timeout for scan list cache.
Comment 8 Felix Mueller 2010-05-17 06:19:31 UTC
Created attachment 6843 [details]
Shorten scan list cache timeout in wlan driver
Comment 9 Felix Mueller 2010-05-17 06:21:32 UTC
Update hours worked
Comment 10 SVN Bot 2010-08-20 05:48:00 UTC
 == Auto-comment from SVN commit #9057 to the jive repo by fmueller ==
 == http://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=9057 ==

Bug: 13950 
Description: Shorter scan list cache timeout to quicker remove APs from scan list that are no longer available.
Comment 11 Felix Mueller 2010-08-20 05:51:40 UTC
Retested and applied patch in r9057.
Comment 12 Chris Owens 2010-09-13 12:01:50 UTC
Since these are fixed, they must not be patch_waiting after all
Comment 13 Paul Chandler 2011-04-29 15:33:54 UTC
7.6.032376 - the unplugged AP was removed from the Radio list after about 3 to 5minutes.  ON the touch the AP was still listed but without the signal icon