From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Jul  1 17:23:25 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7319216A41C
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Fri,  1 Jul 2005 17:23:25 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from sam@errno.com)
Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E79943D48
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Fri,  1 Jul 2005 17:23:25 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from sam@errno.com)
Received: from [66.127.85.94] ([66.127.85.94]) (authenticated bits=0)
	by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j61HNOms012286
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO);
	Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com)
Message-ID: <42C57C24.2070001@errno.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:23:48 -0700
From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Organization: Errno Consulting
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Eric Masson <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>
References: <86psu67naj.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com>
In-Reply-To: <86psu67naj.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ath0, link goes down then up periodically
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:23:25 -0000

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