On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:58:57PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 23:06 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 07:10:48PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > > > One thing I liked a lot with my ifconfig scripts/wpa_supplicant pairing
> > > > is that when wireless is spotty, the network doesn't keep going up and
> > > > down. Instead, applications see lots of dropped packets. When
> > > > reauthentication can take 5 to 10s (or more), assuming that the
> > > > connection is steady when its just spotty can result in better behavior.
> > > > Also nice when quickly swapping ethernet cables. A "network is gone"
> > > > event gets different reactions from applications (particularly those
> > > > that are NM-aware which makes those applications MUCH more annoying to
> > > > deal with in these cases) than "some packets were lost". An option to
> > > > "persist connections despite something probably not actually existing"
> > > > would be nice for situations like this.
> > > 
> > > I've found NM to actually be quite tolerant of spotty wireless 
> > > connections. 
> > > In fact, usually, it's me who triggers a reconnect (or if possible, a 
> > > connect to a different access point, e.g. when I'm at the university in a 
> > > shared building with the business university (WU), I try switching from 
> > > eduroam to eduroam-wu when reception of my university's eduroam is poor), 
> > > NM 
> > > just happily stays "connected" even with 100% packet loss.
> > 
> >   Well, I have opposite experience with my wired connection.  It takes only
> > about 5 flip-flop (carrier on/carrier off) in 10 seconds for NM to consider
> > connection down.
> 
> When carrier state changes happen, NM sets the carrier state internally,
> but won't do anything about it for 4 seconds.  If you get another
> carrier change within that 4 seconds, NM pushes the action off for
> another 4 seconds.  If you get another, then it pushes it off for
> another 4 seconds.  So basically, whenever the device settles down and
> stops spamming carrier changes, NM won't do anything for 4 seconds.

  That's not what I'm seeing:
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:08:11 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now OFF (device state 3)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:08:11 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 3 -> 2 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:08:11 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
deactivating device (reason: 40).
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:08:21 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now ON (device state 2)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:08:21 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:06 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now OFF (device state 3)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:06 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 3 -> 2 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:06 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
deactivating device (reason: 40).
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:07 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now ON (device state 2)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:07 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:09 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now OFF (device state 3)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:09 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 3 -> 2 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:09 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
deactivating device (reason: 40).
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:11 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now ON (device state 2)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:11 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:17 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
carrier now OFF (device state 3)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:17 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
device state change: 3 -> 2 (reason 40)
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:17 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
deactivating device (reason: 40).
messages-20110403:Mar 29 13:09:17 mother NetworkManager[1285]: <info> (nf): 
canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 7250

 At this point I need to manually do "nmcli con up uuid xxx" to have connection 
working again. 

> The next question, what's causing your carrier to flip-flop int he first
> place?

  Power problems at the other end of ehternet cable.  Beyond my control.

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