Subject: Re: kernel: TKIP: replay detected:

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:10:33 -0500

Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:50:00 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:40:53PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>>
>>> My sylog is filled up with thousands of:
>>> Sep 21 18:18:00 aragorn kernel: TKIP: replay detected: \
>>> STA=XX:XX:BB:LL:KK:00 previous TSC 00000000BLAa received TSC 00000000BLAa
>>> Sep 21 18:18:29 aragorn kernel: printk: 62 messages suppressed.
>> Opinion seems to be running that these messages are useless and should
>> be removed.  Anyone disagree?
>>
> They could be useful for debugging.
> 
> Instead of removing them, enable them when a DEBUG flags is enabled.

What condition do they indicate when the two are equal? As you probably saw, I sent a patch that 
disables them in that case, but still print the message when received < previous. Would that be 
acceptable?

Larry