From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 9:59:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35E7537BD32 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@shell.wetworks.org) Received: (qmail 37929 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jun 2000 16:59:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:59:11 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WaveLan oddness at USENIX Message-ID: <20000619125911.B37655@shell.wetworks.org> References: <20000619124930.A37655@shell.wetworks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000619124930.A37655@shell.wetworks.org>; from abc@shell.wetworks.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:49:30PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:49:30PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote: > Well, USENIX is the first time I've needed to run in non-'ad-hoc' mode, > and also the first time I've seen any contention for wireless bandwidth. > > I'm seein REALLY odd behavior when I put my wi0 into promiscuous mode.. > > When it goes promiscuous, 'wicontrol' shows that the Current netname (SSID) > gets reset, the BSSID goes to all 4's (ie: 44:44:44:44:44:44) and my net > connection goes into the toilet. > > Any ideas on what is happening? BTW, this is with 5.0-CURRENT cvs'd Saturday 6/17. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message