[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#653515: Very chatty in syslog; message every time rekeying occurs

[Josh Triplett]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.7.3-5
Severity: normal

wpa_supplicant logs a message like this to syslog every time WPA group
rekeying occurs:

Dec 24 08:26:16 leaf wpa_supplicant[1319]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with AP:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS [GTK=CCMP]

On a network configured to rekey frequently, this generates a large
number of syslog message, drowning out more useful log messages.

Does wpa_supplicant really need to log every time rekeying occurs?

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser       3.113
ii  initscripts   2.88dsf-18
ii  libc6         2.13-23
ii  libdbus-1-3   1.4.16-1
ii  libnl3        3.0-2
ii  libpcsclite1  1.8.1-5
ii  libreadline6  6.2-8
ii  libssl1.0.0   1.0.0e-3
ii  lsb-base      3.2-28

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl  <none>
pn  wpagui                    <none>

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