topic Re: Looking for help with disconnects in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

Looking for help with disconnects

kyle_halttunen — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 19:26:04 GMT

Can anyone help decipher what this means in the log? We are having frequent disconnects on wireless cameras. Any help is appreciated!

Feb 6 19:20:21 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.warn Eved: STA-DISASSOC-REASON,nimac=00:80:f0:c0:3c:8f,func=domlme,line=6020,hint=domlme,rx_rssi=23,ack_rssi=0,reason=2,freq=2447,chan=8,stats=(0,0,11,1089)
Feb 6 19:20:21 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8f IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Feb 6 19:20:21 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8f IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Feb 6 19:20:28 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8b IEEE 802.11: associated
Feb 6 19:20:29 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.warn Eved: wlan1 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8f : Authentication Difficulty
Feb 6 19:20:30 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8a IEEE 802.11: associated
Feb 6 19:20:31 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8a WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Feb 6 19:20:39 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.warn Eved: STA-DISASSOC-REASON,nimac=00:80:f0:c0:3c:8b,func=domlme,line=6020,hint=domlme,rx_rssi=25,ack_rssi=0,reason=2,freq=2447,chan=8,stats=(0,0,11,1089)
Feb 6 19:20:39 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8b IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Feb 6 19:20:39 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8b IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Feb 6 19:20:44 InvesTech-HI AP daemon.warn Eved: wlan1 00:80:f0:c0:3c:8b : Authentication Difficulty

Re: Looking for help with disconnects

monnat_systems — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 14:08:55 GMT

Hi Kyle,

from the logs, i have two observations to make which may be the reason for your troubles

1. Camera is connecting to the AP with poor signal strength hence connection is expected to be unstable and frequent disconnects
2. Try OPEN or simpler encrpyption like WEP just for Testing to see if this issue goes off or not as i am suspecteding re-keying issue right after handshake.

Hope this helps

Re: Looking for help with disconnects

kyle_halttunen — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:14:31 GMT

Thank you for your response. I will try some testing here this week. The strange thing is that this is a replacement unit as the first one died, and there weren't issues with the first one. I am wondering if it is a configuration issue of some sort.