[Bug 213621] WIFI connection is lost periodically on ath0

Patrick Powell papowell at astart.com
Thu Oct 27 23:54:57 UTC 2016


On 10/22/16 13:30, bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213621
>
> --- Comment #12 from Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> ---
> Hiya,
>
> So the beacon miss / TSFOOR is the driver side. I can go take another look at
> fixing that up.
>
> The CCMP replay attack thing - that we need another NIC to sniff the air in
> monitor mode and try to capture the invalid PN showing up in the air. If it's
> coming over the air then sure, we can nail it down. If it's not coming over the
> air, and instead it's corrupted by the AR9380 NIC, we're in trouble.
>
> I need to go double / triple-check to see if we pass frames that fail
> CRC/FCS/decrypt up to the stack for incorrect processing. I'm kinda worried
> that we're processing invalid frames a little too far along the input /
> decryption path.
>

Ummm... I am not familiar with this device,  but I have run into similar 
issues on other IO devices.  Do you have a spare/replacement device you 
can substitute in?   It turned out that on one system one of the device 
chip registers was magically 'losing' a bit.  We did not discover the 
cause of this problem until after much pain and effort  and we replaced 
the motherboard.  After that experience,  I always try a replacement 
device first.   Also,  if is software related then the replacement will 
continue to show the problem.  If it is hardware then you will get NO 
problems, or if Murphy's Law is active, DIFFERENT problems.

Good luck, Adrian,  you have solved some REALLY weird problems before.

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