Implementing wi-fi key renewal
asked 2016-10-31 16:35:59 +0300
This question is to bring to the attention of the community the bug identified in this answer by cuh7b5, and asking developers for a fix.
Quick summary: Wi-fi routers send every N minutes a special packet called "group key renewal", which is used to distribute a new encryption key to be used for broadcast/multicast network connections among the clients. Sailfish OS, apparently, handles this packet incorrectly and disconnects from the network when it receives it. This results in erratic disconnections without apparent cause.
The bug report is currently buried inside the answers to an old question with only 7 upvotes, but I suspect that the problem might be widespread and related to other network issues that appear intermittently, such as this one, which has recently been confirmed to be still present in 2.0.4. So I asked this question to bring it to new attention.
Pretty neat find.
Does this problem apply only to Jolla-C or does it manifest on all SFOS devices?
Is there some specific journal entry that'd show up when this happens?
juiceme ( 2016-10-31 16:59:51 +0300 )edit