Hey folks =) How does wpa supplicant react to an AP going down and
coming back up? i'm thinking about key exchanges. the power often
goes out on my AP due to crappy power lines, and i don't want to be
consoling into the linux machine every time this happens to reenable
the interface.
I figure in the worst-case scenario, I connect successfully to the WPA
network using WPA Supplicant. Keys are renewed/recreated every 3600
seconds. Linux machine is expecting A key. AP Restarts, generates a
new 'B' key which does not match with the 'A' that the linux client
has. Will WPA Supplicant, or my router attempt to negotiate a new key?
I imagine the difference between an AP going hard offline and losing
signal for a while is that losing signal won't force a new 3600second
key to be created.
Sorry if I'm not very clear, but I think I somehow got my message
across.
(WRT54GS, running linksys firmware, soon to be running openWRT. I will
be buying some sort of linksys or intel wireless card for the new
client computer.)
-JP
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