10 minute wpa_supplicant periodic event?

[David Ehrmann]

Possibly.  I went through my wpa_supplicant log and posted the first
few lines to another email I sent to this list in the past day.  But
don't worry, I won't make you go look for my emails.  This is what I'm
seeing every 10 minutes.

RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=1 ifi_flags=0x1043 ([UP][RUNNING])
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Wireless event: new AP: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
Added BSSID 00:0d:97:14:85:aa into blacklist
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
Driver did not support SIOCSIWENCODEEXT
State: COMPLETED -> DISCONNECTED

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andriy
Tkachuk<andriy.v.tkachuk at globallogic.com> wrote:
> Group rekeying handshake?
>
> On 2009-07-17 01:15, David Ehrmann wrote:
>>
>> I have a TCP connection that's getting dropped. ?The drops are some
>> multiple of 10 minutes apart, e.g. 11:26, 11:46, 11:55, 12:26, 12:36,
>> 12:45, 12:55, 13:05, 13:15, 13:26, 13:36, 13:45, 13:56, 14:06, 14:16.
>>
>> My connection is WPA and authenticates with a username and password (I
>> think this means it uses a Radius server, somewhere).
>>
>> Is there a key renegotiation or something similar that takes place
>> every 10 minutes?
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