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Reply to Monterey Beta 12.0 (21A5268h) network drop issue
Hi, running into this a lot lately. We are managing BYOD networks. Macs on Monterey are having dropped Zooms. When users send us WiFi logs we see WiFi~Debugs each time they report an issue. Not a Roam fail or lack of beacons, but a PRE/POST set of what appears to be process traces. Does anyone have a source for how to parse the driver logs? Last post on this thread states that hard coding DNS servers resolved the issue. We see the following a lot: Ping WAN 1.005 No 17:13:52.089 Could not ping DNS server (17.254.0.22 / 0.00ms / BE / 68 bytes / i=0.100000s / W=1.600000s / t=1.600000s / c=1)** 17.254.0.22 is not one of the DNS servers we provide. How to validate if the disconnects are caused by a check that fails because it’s hitting that invalid DNS server (IP belongs to Apple, according to ARIN)? One example. User reported issues at 16:48, 17:11 and 17:13. This is a screenshot of the CoreCaptures during that time: I cannot tell for certain because there is zero documentation available from Apple. But it looks like there is a pattern: An initial event: "watchdog@BCMWLAN Chip Trap~Type=4" (dont know what this is code for, maybe a wake event) Followed a few minutes later by a PRE/POST debug pair. Completes in 2-3 seconds Followed a 10-12 seconds later by another PRE/POST debug pair. Completes in 28-30 seconds. Pure speculation here. E.g. OSX is constantly doing a check against the gateway, DNS servers. One of them fails to respond consistently, a round robin algo aligns it so that sometimes the same endpoint is hit enough times to trigger a fail. The result is OSX thinking that while the link is OK, there is no internet on this connection, so start searching for another network. I would validate with a pcap if i had something to go on.
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: Core OS Tags:
Jul ’22