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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:01:28 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IWN performance very bad with 10.0-RC5
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Hi,

Yup. Is this when things started getting strange? Were they okay
before the replay detection kicked in?


-a

On 12 January 2014 14:45, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Erich Dollansky
> <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:45:59 -0800
>> Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Please help dig up which change broke it. Even just test out the head
>> > iwn code from 6 months ago.
>>
>> I came to a very strange result. I have iwn in the kernel since June
>> 2012 using 10. I also have had run in the kernel of another machine
>> since February 2011. I could not even add runfw to the kernel those
>> days running some 8 stable. I kept it that way until now.
>>
>> run was always working. iwn gave problems starting between August and
>> November of last year on my access point but still worked on other
>> places. I used iwn to connect successfully to another wireless network
>> mid November 2013.
>>
>> After adding the firmware to the kernel for both iwn and run, I could
>> compile the kernel and iwn started to work. runfw did not break
>> compilation.
>>
>> I wonder now if the iwn or run could even work without firmware or if
>> the firmware was automatically loaded even when iwn or run where
>> compiled into the kernel.
>>
>> Erich
>
>
> Some things look odd here. I had been running with crypto debug for about 15
> hours when I captured the attached log. The things tha looks odd to me are
> two series of "AES-CCM replay detected" errors.
> Jan 12 00:54:03 rogue kernel: wlan0: [00:26:b8:67:c3:2d] AES-CCM replay
> detected tid 16 <rsc 1165, csc 1207, keyix 2 rxkeyix 65535>
> [rsc inc. by one 41 times until rsc = csc]
> Jan 12 00:54:03 rogue kernel: wlan0: [00:26:b8:67:c3:2d] AES-CCM replay
> detected tid 16 <rsc 1206, csc 1207, keyix 2 rxkeyix 65535>
>
> One VERY odd thing is the MAC address. It is one byte from being the address
> of my Verizon/ActionTec wireless router. It is the only device on my network
> that has an OID of 00:26:b8, but the last nibble is 28 while these errors
> claim a MAC ending in 2d.
>
> The setkey statements with a MAC of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF also look odd to be,
> but I am pretty clueless about the meaning of most of the message, do it
> might be fine, but looks strange.
>
> During this time I have not had the network  completely hang and require an
> interface restart.
>
> Does this provide anything useful?
>
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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