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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:57:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
To:        Luigi Iannone <Luigi.Iannone@lip6.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DHCP and ancontrol!
Message-ID:  <200312040457.hB44vTrK050291@ambrisko.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.51.0312021959020.26610@tibre.lip6.fr>

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Luigi Iannone writes:
| I have an Compaq laptop (2100ca model), I've installed FreeBSD 4.9!
| I'm starting to play with my Cisco Aironet 350 Series!
| I Know that DCHP and an work not so fine at bootstrap since the interface
| is not able to get the address. Not a problem I made a script!
| But each time that a to a change with ancontrol the interface doesn't work
| anymore. Each time I have to kill the dhclient and to restart it!
| But the worst think is that if a want to set an0 in this way
|
| ancontrol -i an0 -M 1
|
| to enable monitor of 802.11, the DHCP stops work, even if I kill the
| process and restart it.
| Is this related to BPF???? Any known bug? Or just me?

Don't do that.  On the Cisco's card you can't do monitor at the same
time as TX.  Also dhclient used to get really upset when it say
802.11 packets and whines a lot.

Doug A.



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