Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 02:57:00 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath0 going haywire Message-ID: <572057376.20070528025700@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <465A1803.4000200@gmail.com> References: <465A1803.4000200@gmail.com>
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Hello Gunther, Monday, May 28, 2007, 2:45:07 AM, you wrote: > Hi there, > My ath0 wireless interface is going crazy lately. In my logs the kernel > keeps telling me > May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to UP > May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to UP > May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to DOWN > May 28 01:26:28 greg ath0: link state changed to DOWN > while the wireless connection becomes completely useless. The first time > this happened was 5 days ago when I got these messages every couple of > minutes. Today it happened again but much worse than before: First 4 > such messages every 3 seconds, then later 15/sec!!! This kept going for > almost 2 hours while I tried to debug things over the wired interface, > but I had no luck until miraculously it stopped its madness and came > back to normal 15 min ago. No other hints in /var/log/messages... > This this a sign of failing hardware? Or some other obscure bug in the > ath driver? > My signal is pretty solid at 25-30 S:N btw so it can't be that... > Gunther Maybe someone is performing a deauth attack on your AP, in hopes of getting your password? -- Best regards, Ghirai.
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