WPA connection/reconnection timeouts

[Andrew Baumann <andrewb cse unsw edu au>]

Hi,

I sent something like this previously to the list, but it seems it never made 
it there; trying again...

I'm using NetworkManager 0.6.4 (from Fedora) in a WPA network. For some 
reason (probably intermittent interference), wpa_supplicant often takes a few 
attempts before it succeeds at key exchange with my access point. Also, the 
connection will occasionally drop out, triggering wpa_supplicant to 
reassociate and rekey.

Unfortunately NM has compiled-in timeouts of 20 seconds for the initial 
connection and 8s for any reconnection. These are far too low, causing most 
connection attempts to fail, or if a connection succeeds it will be 
terminated the first time it drops out.

I've rebuilt with limits of 40s and 30s respectively, and this works well for 
me (no more failed connections or dropouts). I can see why you might be 
hesitant to increase these timeouts by default, but can I suggest that they 
be set in a configuration file?

Cheers,
Andrew