I have many WiFi devices that work fine with my Flint (in access point mode).
I have one device, a WiFi extender (Netgear EAX15) for which I continually see this in my syslog every couple minutes.
deauthenticated due to inactivity
authenticated
associated
Since the device immediately reconnects each time, it appears as if the connection is working fine (and I probably wouldn’t know anything was happening if I didn’t check the logs). But I would like to know if there is any way to lengthen the inactivity timeout so this doesn’t happen so often?
OpenWrt 21.02-SNAPSHOT r16399+157-c67509efd7
Kernel Version 4.4.60
Firmware 4.1.0
In LuCI under Wireless interface configuration I see a selection for Station Inactivity limit. It currently is blank. Is this setting important in my case?
There’s another setting: Disassociate on Low Acknowledgement, which is checked. Would changing this help?
For anyone else reading this: Unchecking “disassociate on low acknowledgment” was not sufficient to resolve the problem. It was also necessary to check “Disable inactivity polling”.
Unfortunately, after two days the issue returned. I checked and diassociate on low acknowledgment is still unchecked and disable inactivity polling is still checked. On both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands.
Because the Flint is reporting that it disassociated the link due to inactivity. Also because there are reports on the OpenWRT forums about similar issues.
